Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Tony Curtis

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
Steven Soderbergh

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.
Matthew Modine

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
Georges Rouault

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
Anthony Doerr

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.
David Hasselhoff

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
Charlie Hunnam

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
John Clayton

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
Otto Dix

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Henri Rousseau

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.
Steven Tyler

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
John Hurt

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O'Keeffe

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude Stein

Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann