Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Donald Judd

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg

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

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
Richard Donner

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Herbert Simon

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
Kim Weston

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
John Dyer

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
Martin Mull

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson

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

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
William Lyon Phelps

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Marie Windsor

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
William Hogarth

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
Lucian Freud

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
Jackie DeShannon

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Kenneth Koch

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin