Artist Quote by William Lyon Phelps

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

— Grandma Moses

“Commercially raised chickens are also kept confined in cages and fed on denatured feed contaminated with antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides. Chinese physicians have always…

— Daniel Reid

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

I always start a painting with the sky.

— Alfred Sisley

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You…

— Andrew McDermott

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you…

— Dimple Kapadia

“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till people come…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a…

— Peter Falk

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

— Frank Auerbach

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so…

— Grandma Moses