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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.
When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.
Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.
Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.
By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.
I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.