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Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

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

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

A man posing for a painting.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.