That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.
Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.
No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to.
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without. . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.
There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.
The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.