“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.” ThinkingKnowsWantMeanFeelingsSoundTermMy OwnExpressionPaintDislikeCultIsmsExpressionismExponents Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.” CharacterWantedMy OwnStudySubjectsPaintPortraitsPortraiture Author:William Dobell
“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.” IfsLooksMy OwnRoomsDealsPaintingDrawsWindowPaintCurtains Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.” ShouldMadeStillsI CanFeelingsLyingMy OwnWhitePaintingSceneHorseGratefulPaintPainterInstanceTouchedStrongestAssociatesPencilsCarelessI Am GratefulBoyhoodWhite Horse Author:John Constable
“I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.” IfsI CanLanguageMy OwnHonestyPaintOneselfAdmireBeing TrueRuthlessTrue To Oneself Author:Scott Kahn
“I paint my own reality.” ArtRealityMy OwnPaintingPaint Book:Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced Source: Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced
“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.” FeelsRealReasonMightEyeTodayForceMy OwnExampleColorComputerAssumingPaintSurfaceScreensSophisticatedCanvasReproductionSimulationComputer Screen Author:Ryan McGinness
“I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.” PeopleIfsFeelsI CanMy OwnPaintRoundsPainterCanvas Author:Francis Bacon
“You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.” NeedsEnoughArtistMy OwnImagineLove YouPaintingPaintLove Picture Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi