Winslow Homer Quotes

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

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

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

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

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

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.

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

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

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

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.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

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.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

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

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.