I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado... →
Carolina Herrera
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
Dave Hickey
I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.
Celia Imrie
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Robert Indiana
I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.
Robert Irwin
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Damien Hirst
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind... →
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.