Beach Quote by Peter Wright

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

— Amy Sherald

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

— J. M. W. Turner

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

— Danny Fox

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to…

— Paul Theroux

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

— Gerhard Richter

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings,…

— Bob Dylan

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

— David Thewlis

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik