Cheques Quote by Salvador Dali

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

People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be…

— Katharine Whitehorn

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

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the…

— Damien Hirst

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

— Mark Hamill

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

“The sign painter had guts, maybe. Good taste, no. Anyone with a taste for chocolate Paydays had been spending too much time in the…

— Stephen King

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

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

“Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be…

— John Berger

“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than I am,…

— Robert Lowell

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor