Attention Quote by Samuel Johnson

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having…

— Kehinde Wiley

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

— Robert Henri

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

Why talk when you can paint?

— Milton Avery

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine…

— Thomas Kinkade

The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting…

— James Elkins

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

— Antoni Tapies

Paint faster than you can think.

— Alex Katz