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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Every song is like a painting.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

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

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

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

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

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

The substance of painting is light.