Paint Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people,…

— Gustav Klimt

Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I…

— Lori Earley

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is…

— Kehinde Wiley

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost…

— William Morris Hunt

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

— William Dobell

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

— Russell Banks

Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its…

— Gunter Brus