Creating Quote by Jackson Pollock

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the…

— Michele Cassou

More than a process, painting is being possessed...

— Philip Guston

If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate,…

— Michele Cassou

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach…

— Julie Mehretu

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…

— Jackson Pollock

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

— Michele Cassou

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault