Art Quote by Richard Schmid

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all…

— Helen Frankenthaler

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You…

— Andrew McDermott

Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most…

— Michael Chow

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

— Al Jourgensen

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have,…

— Alice Neel

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at…

— Eugene Delacroix

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost…

— William Morris Hunt

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few…

— Frida Kahlo

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke