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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

There's a difference between craft and painting. Craft, your job is to make it exactly the same every time. Painting is the opposite, but in painting there is some craftsmanship, which is called technique. But technique is spontaneous. That's the treasure, the most important part. You are in it.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

The substance of painting is light.

The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that's why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes. I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It's only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil paint on the market thanks to its unique hues, handling properties, purity and density of pigment.

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.