If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning restless urge to write or paint simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Painting n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint ' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting something connected to the fine arts.

Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short with design.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

At 13 when I was a runaway I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention those girls could paint a face and I learned how because of them.

When I work alone my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac it's more like movie making.