With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. – Oprah Winfrey
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. – Harrison Birtwistle
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. – Gerhard Richter
I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. – Henry Flynt
Sometimes I miss out the morning’s painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. – Gustav Klimt
I’m still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human. – Gerhard Richter
I don’t think I can do this – painting under observation. It’s the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. – Gerhard Richter
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. – Howard Hodgkin
After tea it’s back to painting – a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. – Gustav Klimt
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. – Henry Flynt
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father’s generation. – Georg Baselitz
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. – Hedy Lamarr
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping – that’s all there is. – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. But it’s my best option. – Gerhard Richter
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I’m a flesh-eating virus. – Jerry Saltz
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was. – Jackson Pollock
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. – Joan Miro
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don’t ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. – John Hurt