The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
We only have our nervous system to paint.
I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
I don't paint, I hit.
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint. . . a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.