Jack Paar Quotes

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Producing never stops. It's 24/7.

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

My whole thing is that I make music regardless. Regardless of everything around me, I'll always make music.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren't things I thought of in advance. They are more things I am given. What paint does, in watercolor more than oil but it happens in oil too, are things one never expects if you work freely. I suppose I learned a lot coming to this after years of playing improvisational music. I have to trust my intuition and I work in the moment, when that moment seems to be happening. And to leave it alone when it is not.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.