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I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

— James Rosenquist

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✓Similar Perspectives

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

— Banksy

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

— George Bernard Shaw

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

— Anthony Quinn

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

— Gisele Bundchen

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

— Steven Wright

✗Opposing Perspectives

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

— Norman Rockwell

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

— Tori Amos

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

— Winslow Homer

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

— Christopher Plummer