I think of me being a painter eventually.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
Oh, I paint all the time.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
I paint the American scene.
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.
I really prize and love great painting.
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.
If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
