Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make life easier. Obviously painting has to do with something quite beyond that. It's not about communication per se. It doesn't necessarily telegraph anything. It's more about understanding who we are and where we come from.
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction. . . and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.
I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. . . . Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.