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

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

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

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

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

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

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

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

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

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

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

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

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

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

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.

Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on the wall and you're looking at it. It's the same with your car. You're using it, so it goes down in value but you've used it.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Sunlight is painting.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.