Artist Quote by Liu Dan

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

— Lawrence Weiner

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how…

— Keariene Muizz

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

— Steve Martin

I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did not dare…

— Alexander Gilkes

Painting is a strange business.

— J. M. W. Turner

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“mismatched collection of flea market leftovers. The walls, though, were exhibiting an interesting collection of oils and pastels by local artists, all for sale…

— John Grisham

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

— Brian Blessed

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's, like, hard…

— Shavo Odadjian

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's…

— Julio Iglesias

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

— Chuck Close