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.

Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery...

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

What I can’t tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can’t tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

ARTThe world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be...

If you have walked into a museum recently – whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police – you may have noticed a type of painting known as...

[Matisse’s aim in leaving the face blank was] to encourage you to look all over the surface of the painting, … He realized we are biologically constructed to focus on faces more than anything. So...

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it’s...

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You’re reeling in ecstasy and dread. It’s something you want, but can’t ever have....

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers. It’s...

Every song is like a painting.

Is this when you tell me I’m your soul mate, O’Neill?

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself...

Painting pictures didn’t make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art – be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.