Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning restless urge to write or paint simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Painting n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint ' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.