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Choose only one master - Nature.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

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

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

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

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

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

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.

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