Anxious Quote by John Constable

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at…

— Frank Stella

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

— Titian

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking…

— Mordicai Gerstein

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith