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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

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

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

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.