Artist Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

— Nikhil Saluja

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

— Edward Hopper

“He wanted the world to be the color of his dreams, wanted to paint in primary colors.”

— Tal Bauer

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

— Norman Reedus

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

— Robert Redford

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

— Chantal Joffe

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it…

— O. Henry

I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

— Oskar Kokoschka

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

— Edward Hopper