#Painting

"Painting completed my life."

"Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting."

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"A painting that is well composed is half finished."

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out."

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it."

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza."

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."

"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."

"Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees."

"When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."