Familiar Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

— Guido Molinari

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

— Mordicai Gerstein

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

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they…

— William Gaddis

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt