80s Quote by Lewis Black

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

— Mati Klarwein

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often…

— Chris Ofili

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who…

— Josef Albers

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack.…

— Dennis Hopper

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips

Painting is very interesting.

— Sam Waterston

I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.

— Brad Mondo

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against…

— Frank Stella

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig