You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
I want paint to work as flesh.
Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.
I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
