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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's this dance back and forth. We were halfway through the dance. He died.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

I come from a painting background, and although my painting is completely different from my performances, there is something about the fundamentals of that training that transfers over to this idea of an exercise and being diligent about mapping something out in advance - even if it is just being aesthetically diligent.

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I do believe that painting can change the world.