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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

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

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

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 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.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

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

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 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.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

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

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 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.

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.

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

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

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.

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

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

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.

At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas.