paint

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Paint the essential character of things.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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

I paint with shapes.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.