Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are things we can all register, whether we are musicians or not. Painting's no different. Taking pleasure in projecting oneself into the painting is the act of looking. That's what looking is.
The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.
At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris. Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
Painting is more important than art.
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.