Materials Quote by John French Sloan

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

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

— Richard Schmid

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

— Leonora Carrington

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

— Jackson Pollock

I will paint for money any time.

— Winslow Homer

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

— Winslow Homer

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

— George Edward Moore

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

— Georgia O'Keeffe