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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

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• I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

  Danny Huston

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• My only worry is the painting I’m doing. Nothing else.

  David Hockney

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• I’m not going to stop painting just to take orders.

  David Hockney

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• Easel painting means small painting.

  David Hockney

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• I haven’t stopped painting or drawing – I’ve just added another medium.

  David Hockney

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• 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 of mechanical form of painting.

  Damien Hirst

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  Damien Hirst

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• 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

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• I don’t get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

  Carolina Herrera

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• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical.

  P. J. Harvey

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• I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

  Armie Hammer

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• I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall – that when the play is finished, it’s done – but now I realise it’s more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You’re part of a thing that’s living.

  Lee Hall

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• For a while, for as long as you’re looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

  Cath Crowley

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• Rock & roll is not obscure, it’s really easy to understand. So is my painting.

  Grace Slick

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• When I’m painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture – and writing is as well.

  Antony Sher

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• The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• I did painting before I did photography.

  David Bailey

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• Nothing’s sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It’s what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.

  Jennifer Lawrence

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