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My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.
Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.
I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.
There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.