Change Quote by John Newman

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of…

— Philip Guston

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

— Henri Matisse

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

— Paula Scher

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

— Narciso Rodriguez

I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was…

— Gerhard Richter

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a…

— Willem de Kooning

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

— Fred Williams

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

— LeRoy Neiman

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

— Peter Malkin

I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same -…

— Wayne Thiebaud