Moses Quotes

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

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

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Painting is a hobby for me.

My wife and I water color, paint water colors.

I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

Paint something every day.

Writing is busy idleness.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Everyday's a good day when you paint