#Painting

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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)"

"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."

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

"My painting does not come from the easel."

"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."

"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."

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."

"Painting and writing are solitary arts."

"How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell."

"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."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."