Quotes About Inspiration

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

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

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

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

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

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

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

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.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

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

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

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

I paint abstract expressions.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

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

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

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

I can paint in jail.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.