Definitely Quote by Orhan Pamuk

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

— Willem de Kooning

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

— Tyson Chandler

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

— Douglas Lockwood

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea