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More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.
As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.