I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
Peter Wright
LifeBestI AmPeoplePaintingBack
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano
JoyPeoplePaintingFreeNeverGive
Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
Mija
LoveMusicPaintingWritingDrawing
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
Dave Matthews
GoodMusicKissPeoplePainting
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
Peter Doig
GreatPaintingBadWayHimMade
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Salman Rushdie
ArtPaintingWritingYouKnowMean
Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
GoodMePaintingFeelPhotography
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.
Charlie Kaufman
SkyMePaintingSayingYouPerson
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting.
Shaun Tan
ScienceIdeasPaintingMorePure
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
P. J. Harvey
WorkWordsCreativePoetryPainting
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
Michelle Shocked
PeoplePaintingThinkChooseLiving
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens
PaintingPortraitSeriousTwoOnly
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
MusicExperiencePaintingHonest
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
Ori Gersht
PaintingFruitOldSymbolismBullet
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
GoodMusicArtPeoplePaintingBad
Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.
Chadwick Boseman
PaintingYouChoosePersonWantOut
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
Thomas Kinkade
LoveImaginationPaintingListening
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.
Maira Kalman
WorkLovePaintingWritingFateYou
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
Lucian Freud
MePaintingBodyLookChoiceWill
I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
Billy Childish
JobPaintingDinnerSundaySure
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell
GreatHappyPaintingProudAmerican
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
Mac Davis
TimeMePaintingBackFirst Time
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere
MusicPoetryPaintingMediocrity
I love film - it's like painting.
Azzedine Alaia
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