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I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It…

— Milton Resnick

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

— Alex Katz

It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys.…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try…

— Gerhard Richter

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find…

— Frank Stella

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

— William Hazlitt