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I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

I wish to die painting.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.

Keep painting your demons.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.