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I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I'll start it, but during the process of making the object - if it's an object or a painting - it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It's always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I've been creating in some capacity forever. It was always usually painting and drawing, but I've been exploring more video and sculpture in recent years. But they're all kind of the same thing to me, in a way. They're all forms of production and output. As a creative person, sometimes you can't live without creating or producing something.

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.

I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and that they are forcibly entering the world of my paintings. I want there to be a feeling of overpowering decadence to the work, that is almost too much to take. I don't want them to be subtle.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I want painting to be my flashlight.

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 want to die painting.

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

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

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

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.