Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

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