#paint

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. ↗

— John Milius

#does #great #great deal #just #learn

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#busy #career #desperately #eat #forget

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#circumstance #i #myself #painter #thought

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#career #eat #forget #i #irresponsible

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#every #every time #experience #i #like

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#backbone #better #draw #drawing #i

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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