Bored Quote by Henri Matisse

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

— Henri Matisse

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

— Wanda Koop

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

— Henri Matisse

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

— Hiroko Sakai

I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now that, with…

— Heart Evangelista

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of…

— George Rodrigue

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein