Quotes About Art

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

I play the piano, paint, and go for trekking.

I used to paint.

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as Polaroid-photo collage and fax painting.

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it's just a good time.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was creative as a child and studied art at Central Saint Martins before getting into food.

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

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.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.