I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
I like to paint nudes mostly.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
