To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted ….

All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, ….

At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was sudd….

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods..

The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky o….

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to th….

I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed….

Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the ama….

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license t….

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to..