“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.” ThinkingArtSchoolIndividualPaintingFinishedPainterRealisingLayersOften IsArt School Author:Chris Ofili
“If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareCompanyPaintingObligationIf You Care Author:Daniel H. Pink
“No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.” IfsThinkingArtRealMightPaintingBlameCartoon Author:Chris Ware
“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksMadeTwoWholeFilmCertainWalksMinutesHavensPaintingConsumedGalleryDown Time Author:Julie Mehretu