But the reason they create good paintings is not because they’re “paintings”; it’s not because they’re well painted either. It’s because they’re painted with a kind of agenda that that artist brings to it. And that’s a big difference. I have my agenda; that’s what I do whenever I show up to make a sculpture, a painting, or a drawing. I am enacting my perception rather than making a “good” painting because some of the best paintings are really at times the worst paintings you could make. They’re all wrong. You know…there are only five good impressionist painters, and there are like fifty thousand bad impressionists and they are still making those bad impressionist paintings. Why are those few good? Why is someone making an impressionist painting today awful? It’s not because they’re painting it badly, it’s because because they just don’t have a reason to paint it. So that is what I mean when you think about what painting is

Inside the Painter’s Studio, Joe Figg, Princeton Architectural Press | New York, 2009