Age Quote by Matthew Modine

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition,…

— Patricia Piccinini

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.

— Brad Mondo

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the…

— James Ivory

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the…

— Jasper Johns

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but…

— Romare Bearden

My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And, I mean,…

— Temple Grandin