Bits Quote by Banksy

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it…

— Al Pacino

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

— Oliver Sykes

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

— Myfanwy Pavelic

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…

— Jackson Pollock

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

— Criss Jami

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

— Jackson Pollock

I saw an old painting of two friends holding hands. I wonder how long it'll stay in tact. It's old yet never fading. I…

— Superman