I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.
As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.
For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.
The big moment came when it was decided to paint. . . Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.