Approach Quote by Ron Parker

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium…

— John Dyer

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

— Cleo Moore

I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit…

— Loretta Lux

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints…

— Raymond Pettibon

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work.…

— Nelson Shanks

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

— William Hazlitt

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

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

— Ali Banisadr