American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.
Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. . . . Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!
The real subject of every painting is light.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.
Painting contains a divine force which. . . makes the dead seem almost alive.
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.