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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

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

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

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

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

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

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

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

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

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

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

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

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

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 believe that painting can change the world.

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 do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

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 don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't paint red paintings yesterday because I was happy. Nor will I paint yellow paintings tomorrow because I'm jealous.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.