Artist Quote by Winston Churchill

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

— Winston Churchill

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

— Marcel Duchamp

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault