“Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars.” YearsMadeFeltMillionsPaintingDiedDollarsRelevantMillion Dollars Author:Peter Frampton
“I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.” ThinkingYearsLastsMovingPaintingAnxietyAccounts Author:Joe Bradley
“I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.” WritingYearsTwoBookPaintingBusyEditing Author:Janet Evanovich
“I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.” YearsHas BeensPastBlackPaintingModelsSkinsBrownBrown Skin Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it.” IfsGivingYearsStillsIdeasDifferencesRoomsImaginePaintingSittingLiving Room Author:Kehinde Wiley
“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
“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
“Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.” YearsFirstsSchoolStudyDesignPaintingPhotographyThirdsFourthFifthGraphicGraphic DesignFourth Year Author:Ryan McGinley
“For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.” FeelsYearsArtDifficultPaintingPaintPainterCollectorsDominating Author:Domenico Gnoli