It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!
As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
Po: [looking around at the historical artifacts in the palace] Wow! I've only seen paintings of that painting!
Walter Fane: I'd like to press on, if you don't mind. Kitty Fane: Surely my comforts are no concern to you.
It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.
..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and ninety acres of pines. It was painted white, and peeling, and some former hippie tenant had painted a mandala on the wall just inside the door wit...
