Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in 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.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Paint the essential character of things.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

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

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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

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

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

I paint with shapes.