Glad Quote by Stanley Spencer

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

— Amy Sherald

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

— Marie Windsor

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

— Janis Joplin

I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to…

— Janice Tanton

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

— Wanda Koop

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and…

— Edvard Munch

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

— Lila Acheson Wallace

I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now that, with…

— Heart Evangelista

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

— Robert Henri