Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
The soul paints itself in our machines.
Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
