Ronnie Wood Quotes

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.

There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

I moved to New York in 2003 with about $100 bucks in my pocket and a suitcase.

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

I found I have to stay painting.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.