Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

We work in a shop about the size of the paint department of Richard Childress Racing.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

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

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

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

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

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