A flower is relatively small. . . Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.
I was never one to paint space, I paint air.
One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.
My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
Music that paints nothing is only noise.
I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.