Areas Quote by Paul Murray

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you.…

— Kehinde Wiley

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

— John Dyer

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…

— Jackson Pollock

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

— Richard Schmid

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

— Bob Ross

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.…

— Robert Henri