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You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.

— Lee Krasner

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✓Similar Perspectives

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

— Roy Lichtenstein

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

— Yoko Ono

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

— Jack Paar

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

— Ben Shahn

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

— Cy Twombly

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

— Theaster Gates

✗Opposing Perspectives

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

— John Dyer