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You can not lie in your paintings, because you cannot hide from yourself.

You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out, you paint it. But paint it so it makes you glad to be inside near a cozy fire.

You'll never end up in a museum if you spend your whole life painting fences.

You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!

You’ve got to do what interests you. And it can’t matter [how popular it is]—maybe it’s not what’s current now, or what’s being celebrated—but sooner or later people will take notice because it’ll have a vibrancy and a truthfulness to it; it is you, it’s you speaking, it’s you painting. So to me, I thought, why fight it? Let’s see how it goes. I have nothing better to do in this life, so let’s just see where it goes, and where it takes me.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

A man posing for a painting.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.