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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.

— Marcel Duchamp

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✓Similar Perspectives

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

— Mos Def

Nature engenders the science of painting.

— Robert Delaunay

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

— Brian Eno

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

— Chris Ofili

We're all works of art in progress.

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

— Jasper Johns

To create a work of art is to create the world.

— Wassily Kandinsky