painting, n.All

Michelangelo is known to have hated painting and wrote a poem about it

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting is a form of art whose substance is light.

Andy Warhol once ejaculated on a canvas and sold the "painting" for $40,000.

A Painting is a history book and sermon which can be read without the trouble of turning the pages.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

John Lennon stubbed a cigarette out on a Henri Matisse painting while drunk at the Playboy Mansion, causing the painting to increase in value from its $15m price

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

Painting is a commitment to the possibility of moving beyond the human seriously, and reversing the order of perception in order to seize the non-human virtual that eludes actualization.

Painting is a pedagogical investigation of the pre-human, chaotic and invisible 'depth' of a lived visible world.

Painting is a mosaic of colors that is weaved into a seamless whole.