Concerned Quote by Helen Frankenthaler

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.

— Ralph Fasanella

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and…

— Emily Carr

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on…

— Lucian Freud

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied…

— Julian Schnabel

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy…

— Harold Town

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have,…

— Alice Neel