Boredom Quote by Nelson Shanks

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

— Brenda Ueland

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating,…

— James Elkins

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

I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took,…

— Georges Braque

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

— Quentin Blake

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

— Edvard Munch

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding…

— Edward Hopper

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips