Agony Quote by Luc Tuymans

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

— David Choe

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have,…

— Alice Neel

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

— Yayoi Kusama

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate…

— Charles Ray

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you…

— David Hockney

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your…

— Mike Svob

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that…

— Jackson Pollock

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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