Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I…

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can…

— Michael Crichton

“I guess it's nice to always look so put together, but it probably takes an awful lot of work, too. I mean, when would…

— Kat Yeh

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

— Faith Ringgold

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint…

— Antony Sher

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

— Albert Brooks

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

— Olga Kurylenko

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

— Eric Weiner

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer.…

— Grace Slick

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's…

— Stephen King

Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

— Sara Genn

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

— Richard Attenborough

“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s…

— Stephen King

“If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.”

— Duane Hewitt