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

— Mohsin Hamid

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✓Similar Perspectives

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

— Dana Schutz

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

— Bob Ross

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

— Lila Acheson Wallace

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

— Maya Lin

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

— Peter Greenaway

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

— Karl Pilkington

✗Opposing Perspectives

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

— Charles Ives

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus