Denis Diderot Quotes

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.