“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.” YearsHas BeensStatesFactsTodayLastsFivePaintingPainterPrizeTurnerCurator Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.” YearsWellsLastsFiveGenerationsPaintingHundredTwentiesImmortalityThirtyTombstone Author:Robert Genn
“Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.” IfsArtChallengesFivePaintingArt IsDown AndFrustrationFrustratedFrustrating Author:Robert Bateman
“Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.” KnowsNeedsYearsNamesFiveSubjectsPaintingPhotographyTwentiesThirtyTwenty Five Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.” WellsKindSeemsTodayTakenFiveAliveNew YorkPaintingWallSix Author:Jackson Pollock
“I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.” YearsWellsChildrenShowsRunningHurtKnownFivePaintingDaughterTreatsActressesOpeningImpulseFive YearsInsultComplimentSwimmingPoolImpressedWell KnownDivingFive Year OldsSwimming Pool Author:James Nares
“At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.” YearsFivePaintingSixSellingGasStationsCentsShellsSix Year OldsGas Stations Author:Joshua Greenberg
“I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.” DifferentEyeArtistPleasureFiveStylePaintingSixPopsPostsDifferent Styles Author:Erro
“For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.” WayYearsFeelingsWantedDifficultFiveImpossibleSharePaintingSixMy FriendsOne WayPleasant Author:Nate Lowman