I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly loved it.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

I thought, 'How cool would it be to paint Donald Trump in Donald Trump's house with Donald Trump there.'

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

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

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

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