Certain Quote by Helen Frankenthaler

When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed…

— Miriam Schapiro

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy but you…

— Heart Evangelista

Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when…

— Gerald Brommer

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me…

— Erin Morgenstern

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an…

— Pittacus Lore

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I…

— Stephen Beal

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then…

— Gerhard Richter