Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

I believe, even when I’m doing my standup or my acting or whatever I’m doing, I believe in painting pictures.

I talked about everything, man. I’ve always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.

I feel that, as an actor, you’re constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There’s a freedom in that, so that’s why I love to paint.

I’m a visionary, painting my dreams into reality.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it’s purpose, which is quite enough

It is simply this: a writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait.

You know I was curious – I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

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.

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 am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Painting they own pictures then they crop me in. But I will remain where the top begins.

Architecture is the first plastic art; Sculpture and painting need the first. All its excellence comes from light. Architecture is the arrangement of light

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.