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I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I was always a little bit of a collector and a hoarder. And whenever I got involved in anything, whatever it was - even when I was a kid and I collected cigarette cards - I really got into it and had the most. So when it came to paintings, once I got the bug, I always wanted to buy something. But I really knew nothing about art.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

I wish to die painting.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Keep painting your demons.

Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.