Artist Quote by Helen Frankenthaler

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I…

— Emily Carr

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

— Francis Bacon

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an…

— Nick Cave

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

— Faith Ringgold

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

— Bernard Malamud

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz