The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
John Dyer
Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H. R. Giger
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
Robert Indiana
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
Damien Hirst
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
David Hockney
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
Brad Holland
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
Ma Jian
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
Jeff Koons
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and... →
Yayoi Kusama