Charcoal Quote by Robert Longo

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me,…

— John Berger

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting…

— Raul Soldi

Painting is so much more than the materials.

— Brian Johnson

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

— Toni Onley

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through…

— Andrew Forge

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction…

— Kehinde Wiley