Concern Quote by Ralph Allen

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

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

— Rene Magritte

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

— Roger de Grey

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate…

— Max Beckmann

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

— J. M. W. Turner

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

— Ben Shahn

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet