Pastoral Resources

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

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.

I want to die painting.

I have sworn to die painting.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

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 don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

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.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

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.