I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.
Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always.
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
I paint with a language I can call my own. . . it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.