Block Quote by Stephen Shore

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting…

— David Byrne

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint…

— Maxfield Parrish

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke