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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

— Philip Guston

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

— Becky G

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

— Peter Wright

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

— Maurice Sendak

✗Opposing Perspectives

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

— Helen Frankenthaler

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

— Yves Tanguy