If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
Bruce NaumanPainting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Bridget RileyAnd then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice WoodI think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.
Chris BlackwellNever let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
Chuck CloseEven when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
Gustav KlimtGray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
Gerhard RichterIn England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Howard HodgkinInstinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri MatisseYou know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.
David GuettaThe idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien HirstThe spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
Damien Hirst