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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

There's a difference between craft and painting. Craft, your job is to make it exactly the same every time. Painting is the opposite, but in painting there is some craftsmanship, which is called technique. But technique is spontaneous. That's the treasure, the most important part. You are in it.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

The substance of painting is light.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that's why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence.

The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.