Bonaparte Quote by Roman Genn

Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my…

— Kehinde Wiley

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I…

— Stephanie Szostak

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

— Philip Guston

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique…

— A. Y. Jackson

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close…

— Chris Ofili

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one…

— Christopher Plummer

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

— Tori Amos

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm a painter"…

— Doug Stanhope