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Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

For me, the whole idea of the radically new is tied to a close reconsideration of older sources. I like to give myself over to those sources, as points of origin, in order to bring things forward. My approach requires me to internalize my sources as much as possible in the hope that new themes might emerge. The material has to be internalized in order for it to live again. Ultimately, paintings reveal themselves on the basis of what they are. They are inseparable from the physical process that goes into their making.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

From today, painting is dead.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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