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The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

The mind paints before the brush.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

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

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

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

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

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

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.