Quotes About Art

I want to die painting.

People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I love painting.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.