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Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

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

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 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.

From today, painting is dead.

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 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.

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

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

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

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

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

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

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

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 am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

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 against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

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

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.