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I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

— Peter Wright

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✓Similar Perspectives

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

— Lucian Freud

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

— David Hockney

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

— LeRoy Neiman

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

— Jim Lee

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I have never been much of a painter.

— Christian Marclay

✗Opposing Perspectives

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

— Bob Dylan

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

— John Hurt