Damien Hirst"For the last couple of years Hirst has also been painting again — actually painting, as in the kind of pictures an artist produces with his own hand, not through assistants — and always with a sense of Bacon looking over his shoulder. If he continues to go this route it's a big risk. He's given no evidence up to now that he knows what to do with a brush, and there are plenty of people waiting for him to fall on his face."

Let's make some room for him up on the fifth floor.
Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good - Time Magazine

George Grosz, New York 1932
Water color painting is very old. The first colors with which men began to paint were water colors. The early fresco painters also employed a kind of water color-a tempera color-which was made principally of egg and a species of cherry gum.  read more »

George Grosz, Berlin 1920
The art of today depends on the bourgeoisie and will die with it. The painter, even if unaware of it, is a cash factory, a machine for producing profit, who is used by wealthy exploiters and aesthetic jackasses so they may invest their money more or less profitably and be called, therefore, patrons of the arts. Art is, to many, a kind of flight away from this 'vulgar' world into a shining sphere where they may fantasize about a paradise free and clear of civil strife and factionalism.  read more »