Bigger Quote by Chuck Close

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

— Abbie Cornish

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people.…

— JR

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you.…

— Kehinde Wiley

I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if…

— Dave McKean

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

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons.…

— Amanda Harlech

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a…

— Sante D'Orazio

I am constantly in a need to create irrespective of the medium. When I started out, I did sketch and I continue to do…

— Shefali Shah

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting…

— Joan Miro