Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint ' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

When I work alone my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac it's more like movie making.

When I work alone it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive subconscious process.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation when God and the world were alone together without man!

I cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I know best.