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

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

— Edward Hopper

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

— Daniela Vega

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

— Nikhil Saluja

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He wanted the world to be the color of his dreams, wanted to paint in primary colors.”

— Tal Bauer

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

— Norman Reedus

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

— Robert Redford

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

— Chantal Joffe

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it…

— O. Henry

I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

— Oskar Kokoschka

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do…

— Pierre Soulages

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

— Jim Henson

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

— Andy Warhol