The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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 sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.