Call me Quote by Agnes Denes

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of…

— Loretta Lux

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place…

— Mark Rothko

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led…

— Matt Gonzalez

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the…

— Agnes Denes

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann