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• Who’s going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They’d say, ‘Can I see your paintings?’, wouldn’t they?

  David Hockney

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• 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

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• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don’t think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  Damien Hirst

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• The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness – all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

  Michael Heizer

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• I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

  Jane Seymour

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• Mark Grotjahn’s large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

  Jerry Saltz

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• My paintings are rubbish.

  David Bailey

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• It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

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• I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

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• Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

  Georges Seurat

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• It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are ‘almost done.’

  Thomas Kinkade

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• People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

  Thomas Kinkade

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• ‘Playboy’ made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings – not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

  LeRoy Neiman

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• All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

  Chuck Close

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• I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

  Chuck Close

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• One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

  Edvard Munch

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• Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

  Robert Indiana

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• The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

  Balthus

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• My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

  Jackson Pollock

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• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

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