Bottom Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...

— Claude Monet

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

— Pablo Picasso

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

— Rembrandt

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's…

— James Elkins

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Ali Banisadr

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

— Stephen Beal

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

— Francesco Clemente