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People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.
I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.
My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.
Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.
Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.
Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.
I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work.
There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.
Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.
The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.
Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?
Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?