Artist Quote by Toni Onley

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you…

— Helen Van Wyk

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

— Chai Lu

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

— Rolf Harris

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

— Albert Camus

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

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

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas