I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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.
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, arms it, mechanizes it.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
Next time you're off to get a new painting, bring a mirror and you'll see right away if it'll bring you gratification or not.
