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Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.
I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.
I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.
Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.
My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.
I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.