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My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

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

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

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

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.