I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.
When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.