Abstract Quote by Ralph Goings

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

— Francis Bacon

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house…

— Frederic Chopin

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued…

— Bob Ross

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me that I…

— Michael Chow

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

— Monica Drake