Quotes About Art

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I paint with shapes.

Paint the essential character of things.

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in a different language. It was something that was mysterious about me.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.