#pain

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ↗

— Peter Wright

#colour #flooding #front #going #i

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#collaborator #i #influences #like #nature

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion. ↗

— Amy Grant

#compassion #difficult #difficult times #experience #filled

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. ↗

— William Wiley

#also #going #i #i see #just

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to. ↗

— William Wiley

#attracted #been #desire #drawn #i

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

#among #away #gain #get #inflict

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#deep #deep south #estates #had #houses

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#i #like #me #never #painting

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#began #first #fulltime #gallery #had

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#because #change #furniture #hang #i