I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

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