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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Painting completed my life.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.