Alicia: God must be a painter. Why else would we have so many colors?
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years...
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
