Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. – Robert Motherwell
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. – Robert Hughes
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. – Philip Guston
I’m not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. – Robert Rauschenberg
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. – Peter Doig
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. – Quentin Blake
I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can’t just switch it on and off. – Roger Rees
I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I’m still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge. – Roger Rees
Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. – Philip Guston
I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world. – Robert Rauschenberg
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it. – Rosanne Cash
Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay – or, rather, or analysis – to movement. – Octavio Paz
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I’ve done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success. – Quentin Blake
As a kid, I wanted to be a sportscaster. On the radio. I loved the idea of painting a picture. I didn’t want to be on TV. I wanted to be Jon Miller, who called all the Orioles games. – Thomas Kail
For me, acting is about the art of it and it’s about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. – Shailene Woodley
The idea of being close to where pigments were mined – that’s the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what’s the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it. – Susan Vreeland
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. – Sarah Gavron
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn’t mean you would stop painting. – Teddy Thompson
Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up… or bury! And when people say, ‘Oh, he’s an icon,’ well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don’t call me a national treasure. – Terry Wogan
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. – William Blake
Because I was traveling a lot during the ’70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn’t much painting during those years. – Sigmar Polke
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it. – Shahzia Sikander
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? – Sergei Eisenstein
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I’m good at everything but because I’m not good at any of these things. – Takeshi Kitano
In a movie, you’re raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. – Viggo Mortensen