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Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.
I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me of summers at the beach.
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.
In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.
Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.
I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.