Paint Quotes - Page 14

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

Painting is more important than art.

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

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

History paints the human heart.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

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

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