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

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

— Anonymous

My purpose is to write, be creative; to take my God-given talent and do something positive with it.

— Jani Lane

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like…

— Natalie Goldberg

“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

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally…

— Kanye West

I have a really big imagination, which is amazing - it allows me to write and be creative. But it also sends me to…

— Fearne Cotton

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

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

— Erin Morgenstern

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

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

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,…

— Jolene Blalock

I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

— Mindy Kaling