Advise Quote by Maurice Sendak

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

— Margaret Atwood

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

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure…

— Nan Goldin

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

— Bob Ross

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then…

— Gerhard Richter

“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

— Francesco Clemente

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir