Artist Quote by Paul Gauguin

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean…

— David Levithan

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field…Merely think, here is…

— Claude Monet

IF SOMEONE SHOWS YOU THEIR TRUE COLOURS, DON'T TRY TO REPAINT THEM.

— Madhu Desai

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

— Yoko Ono

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

— Ellsworth Kelly

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

— Alexander Calder