Matter Quote by Kehinde Wiley

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

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

— Glenn Ligon

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter,…

— Lucian Freud

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you…

— Helen Van Wyk

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

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

— Henri Matisse