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

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

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.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

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

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

[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.

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 a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.