Bank Quote by Damien Hirst

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

— Arnold Newman

“I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think…

— Donna Tartt

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather…

— Artie Shaw

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New…

— Ronnie Wood

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever…

— Salvador Dali

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing,…

— Marcel Duchamp

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

— Rob Long

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have…

— Anh Do

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give to the…

— Tony Shafrazi

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point…

— Lawrence Weiner

Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of money, but…

— Nicola Walker