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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.
Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.
Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.
In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.
Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.
I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.