Quotes About Dedication

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

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

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

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

Being a big guy, I've got to shore up the paint a lot more. It's my job.

Growing up in South Jersey, I have always been an Eagles fan. I don't paint my face or anything like that, but I deeply care about the team.

I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for four years and he gave me a lot of time off to train and to play non-league football and that was where I was finally spotted.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I want to die painting.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.