Artist Quote by John French Sloan

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips

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

— Salvador Dali

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

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

— Pierre Soulages

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

— Caio Fonseca

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe