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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Choose only one master - Nature.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.