Art Quote by E. J. Hughes

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their…

— Ben Shahn

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

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

I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves…

— Lucian Freud

I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point,…

— Ellsworth Kelly

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and…

— Hilma af Klint

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

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

— Arnold Newman