Able Quote by Norbert Bisky

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of…

— George Rodrigue

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much…

— Gustave Courbet

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs…

— Miranda July

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

— Lucian Freud

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

— Andy Warhol

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on…

— Paul Gauguin

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a…

— Julian Schnabel

I love painting and have a need to do it.

— Emma Watson

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn