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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.
I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
I never saw a painting that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish.
Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.
Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.
You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.
I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.