Bottom Quote by Neil Welliver

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it,…

— Jackson Pollock

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

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

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's…

— James Elkins

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look…

— Vincent Van Gogh

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

— Philip Guston

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

— Arshile Gorky

What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting.…

— Milton Resnick

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri