Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

Painting n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.

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

Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short with design.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

When I work alone my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac it's more like movie making.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation when God and the world were alone together without man!

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed starting with my rocking horse at age 2 all the way through my painting and drawing phase.