Air Quote by Philip Guston

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of…

— Philip Guston

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it…

— Mark Ryden

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

— Willem de Kooning

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

— Tyson Chandler

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

— David Choe

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard