A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold Stokowski

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Otto Dix

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
Maurice Denis

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
Russell Banks

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
John Glover

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
Robert Rauschenberg

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
Minnie Driver

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
Rod Taylor

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
Lucian Freud

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
Sanjay Kumar

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
Jerome Isaac Friedman

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
Max Cannon

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison