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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain to me. In a sense it is a transfiguration, what comes at me in my life or what I see going on in the world comes out as something beautiful or hopefully beautiful.

I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the Renaissance that applies to any painted surface. So if you're engaging in paintings, this is the language that one has to learn and is obliged to speak. I was very fortunate that I learned this language when I was a kid before I went to California, where I learned the language of attitude. Somehow the two things began to coexist.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are things we can all register, whether we are musicians or not. Painting's no different. Taking pleasure in projecting oneself into the painting is the act of looking. That's what looking is.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.