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Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.
Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.
Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.