Inspirational Quote by Robert Kanigher

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

— Gerhard Richter

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's…

— Jenny Saville

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

— Leonora Carrington

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

— Niki de St. Phalle

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by…

— Morris Graves

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco