Artist Quote by Walter J. Phillips

Painting is very interesting.

— Sam Waterston

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist…

— Sol LeWitt

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me…

— Erin Morgenstern

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

— John Howe

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

— Richard Billingham

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and…

— Bruce Nauman

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference…

— E. J. Hughes

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

— Mark Hamill

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

— John French Sloan

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer… In this sense, the work as…

— Adrian Piper