“In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.” PeopleEnoughFoundSidesFiguresPaintingEastApartmentEast SideFigure Painting Author:Claes Oldenburg
“People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.” PeopleTryingNextGonePaintingPhotographySickVideoAnnoyingAlways TryingGroovy Author:Cindy Sherman
“It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.” PeopleWayWantPaintingPhotographSculpture Author:Richard Serra
“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.” PeopleGivingArtKidsFormWishHoursAbilityComedyPaintingBills Author:Godfrey
“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtReasonEmotionalPaintingOffersContactNo Reason Author:Andrew Wyeth
“I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.” PeopleWantFeelsFirstsWellsLooksHomeBeautifulGonePaintingComing HomeFamily And FriendsMadridBeautiful Paintings Author:George Clooney
“Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about restricting rights and they are never really prepared to talk about what the honest tradeoffs are. One of the things we need to do a better job of is actually painting those tradeoffs.” PeopleNeedsTryingCareJobsChoicesRightsHonestPaintingGunPreparedHealth CareAbortionGun ControlAlways TryingBetter JobsPro Choice Abortion Author:Ian Bremmer
“I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.” PeopleLooksWantedPaintingGlances Author:Peter Webber
“People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.” PeopleLanguageBlackPaintingPaintComplexity Author:Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
“To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.” PeopleTwoJobsDifferencesStagePaintingBarsRelyLighthouseTwo Jobs Author:Danny Fox
“Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.” PeopleSongInspirePainting Author:Danny Fox
“Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.” PeopleThinkingMatterMightCertainSpaceSubjectsPaintingInvolvedSubject Matter Author:Julian Schnabel
“I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.” PeopleWayPaintingGet AwayViewersGet Real Author:Julian Schnabel
“I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.” PeoplePaintingImpatient Author:Julian Schnabel
“I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.” PeopleEndsPaintingPaintSellingHobbies Author:Grace Gealey
“Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!” PeopleKnowsPaintingResponsible Author:Sophie Blackall
“We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.” PeopleNeedsRiskAwarenessPaintingClimateClimate Change Author:Bill Gates
“What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?” PeopleWonderPaintingTerribleConservativeScaryConfusing Author:John S. Dickerson
“Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.” PeopleTryingArtShowsUsedSpiritChurchWealthPaintingPaintPainter Author:Brian Froud
“In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.” PeopleThinkingStoriesPaintingVery GoodPotDictatorNailsExhibitions Author:Erro
“In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.” PeopleThinkingWellsSometimesArtistDiesKnownPaintingDiedWell Known Author:Rokia Traore
“People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMindJobsMovingPurposeFunLosesPayPaintingLike YouMonthsBandQuittingOklahoma Author:Josh Jones
“I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.” PeopleWritingKindTwoNextStuffPlansPaintingMonthsTwo MonthsDave Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.” PeopleKnowsTryingWellsMeanArtSeemsWould BeSchoolTurnsPaintingIdealsArt School Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.” PeopleArtEndsReasonWholePaintingBranchesWorking ItClosing Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayFeelsHas BeensShowsPurposeDifficultViewsTelevisionPaintingTvsLgbtAccurateExaggeratedTelevision ShowsComedic Author:Billy Eichner
“I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision their legacy, that is. Often this is because they're afraid to commit for fear of failure.” PeopleFirstsHardPaintingCommitLegacyHard TimesCompellingFear Of Failure Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with.” PeopleWayWritingTryingBookAbleFilmGoneFiguresPaintingArtisticWriting A BookExpress Yourself Author:Rob Reiner
“The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.” PeopleKnowsMayFilmArtistWatchesInfluencePaintingWatch Movie Author:Laurie Simmons
“They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own.” PeopleLooksKindArtCareLiteratureCommunityAbilityLandPaintingTraditionLocalsAttachmentConnectedness Author:Robert Hass
“I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.” PeopleThinkingWritingUseMy OwnPaintingLettersDrawingShockedHandwritingDrawing And Painting Author:David Shrigley
“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.” PeopleIfsWantCoursesInterestMy OwnViewsObjectsPaintingIntentionPoint Of View Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John Moores Painting Prize and that was very interesting for me, because some of the judges are Chinese and some are British, and we look at the work together. It was fascinating that most of the time we were in complete agreement, but some of the time we were not. People send their works from all over China. For a foreigner, this gave me a very good picture about what is happening in China and its art today.” PeopleThinkingLooksArtImportantTodayTogetherInterestingPaintingJudgingHappeningsVery GoodChinaBritishChineseFascinatingAgreementWorking TogetherPrizeVery InterestingForeignersExhibitionsShanghai Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.” PeoplePaintingGoes OnInstallation Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.” PeopleFirstsDifferentBigsUsedSpaceRoomsSawsNicePaintingSevenParisColourGalleryVery NiceExhibitionsDifferent Colours Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.” PeopleHas BeensDoneWhitePainting Author:Kehinde Wiley
“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.” PeopleMeanArtBookCareTodayCertainPaintingHugeTasteConversationModelsLibraryStudiosMake SenseArt HistoryHistory Books Author:Kehinde Wiley
“My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.” PeopleGivingLooksFormSoundPaintingLike MeVocabulary Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at these paintings is, these are the guys who said yes.” PeopleKnowsWaySaidGuyHellPaintingWho You AreScareNot InterestedAnother Way Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.” PeopleKnowsHouseSawsPaintingAbstractCollectionsWholeheartedlyAbstract Painting Author:Dennis Hopper
“Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldStillsStreetsThis WorldPaintingSellingBrokeApplesBuyingPencilsLoan Author:Dennis Hopper
“We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what I'm talking about, is that we have a regulatory system that is biased to protect profit and not to protect people. We need a much more precautionary and proactive regulatory system that is not influenced by the revolving door.” PeopleNeedsTalkingGenerationsDoorsCenturyPaintingProtectPaintProfitHousingBiasedGasolineProactiveRevolvingRevolving Doors Author:Jill Stein
“All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.” PeopleThinkingSpecialEventsPaintingUnnaturalDead PeopleSpecial Times Author:David Bailey
“I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsArtTwoDreamSongHalfMinesPaintingArt IsExcitingDiedVansHalf A Year Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda