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There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.
I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.