While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another.Most of those that covered the walls were not what I should chiefly have...

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book...

I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.

both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows, footprints in the snow, so to speak. Then pencil scribbles on the stretcher,...

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

I’m not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of...

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter...

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

I came there again another time. And I looked many times again. I was filled with consolation, with my consolation.The thirty-three abominations were truthful. They were the truth. They were life. The sharp fragments of...

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Yet the misty spring rain softened the outline of the mountain across the river and made it even more beautiful. So gentle was the rain that they hardly knew they were getting wet as they...

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.

The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture – Tient par un clou dur.)

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

We’re different, you and I. I am a Rorschach Test, and you, you are a butterfly. No, wait, you are a bat. Actually, you are the Galapagos Islands. Or perhaps you are a failed Pollack...

This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role....

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

I don’t like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody’s dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way...

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I...

I had a dream about you. I was a painter, and you were a nude banana. You wanted me to paint you in a still life, and I asked you to put some peels on....

Art is unpredictable.

And on the days I couldn’t breathe, I learned to paint air.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.

If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.

You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic...

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightly-colored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains...

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took...

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

I’m painting color squares. Onesquare – one color. That’s what I paint.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.