Fighting Quote by Robert Henri

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

— Paul Gauguin

“Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art school later.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The artist should always be the student.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

— Caio Fonseca

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and…

— Walter J. Phillips

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

— Edouard Manet

Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.

— Kate Spade

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to…

— Joshua L. Goldberg