I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston

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

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

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
Willem de Kooning

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Howard Hodgkin

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

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.
Sophia Bush

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
David Cross

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
Mike Thompson

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
John Dyer

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
Lee Scott

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.
Christina Milian

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Ajay Naidu

I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me.
John Lurie

I like to paint nudes mostly.
Cleo Moore

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Grandma Moses