Mickalene Thomas Quotes

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

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

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.