Artist Quote by Mike Svob

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

— Fred Williams

“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.”

— Bert Dodson

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly…

— Jerry Saltz

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They…

— Peter Wright

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

— Jackson Pollock

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

— Black Francis