Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
A great painting is a great painting.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
The substance of painting is light.
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.