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Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

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