Yayoi Kusama Quotes

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I'm an artist at heart.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

What I'm good at is making art.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?