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I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

— John Mellencamp

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✓Similar Perspectives

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

— Thomas Kinkade

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

— Man Ray

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

— Gary Hume

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

— Jeff Koons

I want paint to work as flesh.

— Lucian Freud

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

— Janet Malcolm

I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.

— Sean Scully