Artist Quote by Peter Paul Rubens

I want paint to work as flesh.

— Lucian Freud

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

— Alice Neel

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter,…

— Lucian Freud

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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 paint with shapes.

— Alexander Calder

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

— David Hockney

I don't want to look like a woman. I want to look like a drawing of a woman.

— Violet Chachki

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express…

— Henri Matisse

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo