Artist Quote by Rembrandt

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint.…

— Rembrandt

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

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

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

— Henri Matisse

I just can't seem to paint nice things.

— Ivan Albright

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

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Frida Kahlo

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann