#Painting

"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."

"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

"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."

"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"Painting completed my life."

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

"My painting does not come from the easel."

"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."

"How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'(Amber)'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.'(Virgil Daly)"

"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."

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

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

"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."

"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 by nature a luminous language."