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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

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 look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake, I don't really have a problem with it. You're not looking at an original piece of art anyway: when it gets scanned for printing it becomes digital.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

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

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 do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reasonable sum of money for a good Rothko painting. What's disturbing about this present moment is that these prices have been so out of control.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.