#painting

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#did #drawing #i #like #painting

Sunlight is painting. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#sunlight

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#before #beforehand #complete #develops #eyes

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#increase #make #most #painting #probably

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#afraid #always #been #beginning #form

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #because #came #colour #curtains

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#couple #doing #i #just #last

Through a painting we can see the whole world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#see #through #whole #world

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#always #been #exact #impression #intimate