Artist Quote by Damien Hirst

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

— Damien Hirst

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and…

— Malcolm Morley

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the…

— Rob Pruitt

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people actually project…

— Caio Fonseca

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester