So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.
Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.
Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)
If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.
I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.
I like the transience of Klimt paintings.
You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.
I was always very. . . impatient about showing my paintings to people.
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.