Advice Quote by Pablo Picasso

There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to…

— Robert Henri

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned…

— Samuel Morse

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in…

— Shea Hembrey

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula.…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Lucian Freud

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

— Helen Frankenthaler