Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
The substance of painting is light.
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space. . . but I don't understand that.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.
Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.