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I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don’t make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn’t work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Actually, you want to go into an area where you’re frightened. Otherwise, you’re just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I don’t have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I’m more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

In our own time it has been seen… that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, ‘Well it’s not the greatest painting’ and I say, ‘It is to me.’ OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, ‘That’s beautiful’ but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I’ve gone. That’s what I want to come home to.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room – that’s what museums are – a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that’s a beautiful thing.

Another thing that you really do when you play, that you’re supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it’s like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it’s all in blue or it’s all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

I don’t buy art. I’d rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.