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No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.