On and off Quote by Bhumika Chawla

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

— Oliver Sykes

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

— Jonathan Lethem

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

— Henri Matisse

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try…

— Gerhard Richter

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

— Roger de Grey

When I was a kid, I always used to paint. I like to draw.

— Marky Ramone

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

— Leonora Carrington

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I…

— Michael Israel

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something…

— J. August Richards