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Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.

Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on the wall and you're looking at it. It's the same with your car. You're using it, so it goes down in value but you've used it.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

Sunlight is painting.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.