#Painting

"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."

"I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality."

"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."

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

"In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that."

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself."

"Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

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

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

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

"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."

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

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

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

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

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."

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