Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.

Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

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

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

My painting does not come from the easel.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

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.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

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

Every good painter paints what he is.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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