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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are things we can all register, whether we are musicians or not. Painting's no different. Taking pleasure in projecting oneself into the painting is the act of looking. That's what looking is.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating need for change that was already there. I got a little push. I did a group of the paintings early on that were among the best. It was sort of beginner's luck with these.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren't things I thought of in advance. They are more things I am given. What paint does, in watercolor more than oil but it happens in oil too, are things one never expects if you work freely. I suppose I learned a lot coming to this after years of playing improvisational music. I have to trust my intuition and I work in the moment, when that moment seems to be happening. And to leave it alone when it is not.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.