Mohsin Hamid Quotes

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

I have sworn to die painting.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I will preach with my brush.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I like creating images.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.