#painting

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#else #finish #i #looks #me

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. ↗

— William Hogarth

#found #generally #had #i #judges

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #art form #consider #form #hobby

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#landscape #novel #painting #psychoanalysis #sex

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. ↗

— John Hurt

#ask #far #felt #insecure #made

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#i #lot #make #me #money

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#been #drawing #i #long #longer

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#each #exactly #i #i can #interruptions