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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Quotes by Willem de Kooning

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Quotes by Willa Ford

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

Quotes by Vangelis

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Steven Wright

I love to paint.

Quotes by Sridevi

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Quotes by Seth Godin

I worked in my parents' decorating store from six. My mum would get me in every Saturday polishing the paint and straightening the wallpaper for 50p.

Quotes by Sara Davies

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

Quotes by Russell Banks

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Quotes by Rod Taylor

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

I paint the American scene.

Quotes by Robert Indiana

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Quotes by Robby Gordon

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

Quotes by Rita Ora

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Quotes by Richard Price

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Quotes by Richard Linklater

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

Quotes by Richard Avedon

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Quotes by Rene Magritte

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

Quotes by Pierce Brosnan

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Quotes by Pierre Bonnard

It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.

Quotes by Peter Max

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

Quotes by Peter Max

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

Quotes by Peter Marino

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Quotes by Peter Dinklage

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Quotes by Paul Simonon

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Quotes by Paul Klee

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Quotes by Morris Graves

Why talk when you can paint?

Quotes by Milton Avery

I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.

Quotes by Mickalene Thomas

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Quotes by Michelangelo

Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.

Quotes by Michael Israel

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Quotes by Max Cannon

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Quotes by Maurice Denis

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Quotes by Matthew Prior

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Quotes by Martin Mull

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

Quotes by Marc Veasey

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

Quotes by M. F. Husain

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Quotes by Lucian Freud

I want paint to work as flesh.

Quotes by Lucian Freud

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

Quotes by Loretta Swit

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Quotes by Larry Wall

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Quotes by Kristin Bauer van Straten

I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.

Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

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

Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that.

Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

Quotes by Kate Upton

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

Quotes by Julian Eltinge

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

Quotes by Jonathan Winters

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

Quotes by John Dyer

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

Quotes by John Dyer

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

Quotes by John Clayton

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Quotes by Jim Henson

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

Quotes by Jessica Stockholder

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

Quotes by Jessica Mauboy

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

Quotes by Jenny Shipley

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

Quotes by Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

I don't really want to get too heavy, you know. I still want to be able to move in the paint.

Quotes by Jayson Tatum

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Quotes by Jasper Johns

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

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

Quotes by Jamie Hewlett

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

Quotes by Jamie Hewlett

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

Quotes by James Turrell

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

Quotes by James Rosenquist

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Quotes by James Montgomery

There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.

Quotes by Jake McLaughlin

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

Quotes by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Quotes by Henri Matisse

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Quotes by George Jones

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Quotes by Geoffrey Holder

I used to paint.

Quotes by Gauri Khan

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

Quotes by G. Edward Griffin

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

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

Quotes by Evan Rachel Wood

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

Quotes by Etel Adnan

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

With my game, my biggest asset is being a point guard who can get into the paint.

Quotes by Eric Bledsoe

I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

Quotes by Ellar Coltrane

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Quotes by Elizabeth Peyton

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

Quotes by Eleonora Duse

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

Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

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