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Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.
No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.
I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.