Quotes About Painting

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

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

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

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.

I used to be a nanny and the kids used to laugh at me when I'd say 'Shall we paint something?' They just wanted to go on their iPads.

My family encouraged me to paint, but I was never allowed to go to the theater. Naturally, this made me interested in the theater.

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.

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.

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

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.