Ifs Quote by Salvador Dali

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

— Peter Greenaway

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

— Leonora Carrington

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

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

— J. M. W. Turner

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

— Philip Guston