Quotes About Art

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.

I want paint to work as flesh.

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

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.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

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.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'