“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.” ArtCountryWantedArtistFunRealizingClassSeeingInspirePaintingArt Class Author:Edward Ruscha
“An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.” PersonsWholeJoyFunPaintingMessBotherDeliciousSurroundings Author:Mervyn Levy
“Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.” ThinkingWellsFunEventsPaintingMereProfoundPainterFulfilling Author:Steven Whitney
“I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.” ArtImportantSelfWantedFormFunSeeingPaintingTypeHighestUniversityDrawingRelatedAbstractRejectsPretentiousSurrealismAbstract Painting Author:Neil Farber
“I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.” TogetherGamesFunStruggleFiguresPaintingFitUnderstoodAbstractAesthetic Author:Margaux Williamson
“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.” PeopleWayWritingDoneAbleMovingFunLinesPaintingMachinesPerformancesDance Performance Author:Jose Parla
“Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.” WantLongFunEnjoyPaintingPaintEnjoyedTireGood Fun Author:John Dyer
“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.” WantMindChildrenWantedSchoolFunMy OwnOne ThingPaintingFameFinishedLive LifeHaving FunMy Time Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi
“Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.” WantWantedFunPaintingLive LifeHaving FunMy Time Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi
“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.” WorldWantFeelsBelieveArtI CanMovingUsedFunI BelieveEnjoyToo MuchNicePaintingArt IsDon't BelieveI Believe InDrawingNeighborhoodNervesTouchingShedMeditatingRenounceChuckDrawing And Painting Author:Jim Woodring
“The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.” ThinkingMenTryingI CanShowsNextFunClearDoorsTreeHe ManPaintingOne DayLowsCleanPaintWoodsColourBrownBurnedDrearyJust For Fun Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.” IfsTryingJobsDesireFunInterestPainting Author:Gerhard Richter
“I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.” RunningDesireFunPaintingWall Author:Frances Stark
“I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.” StoriesHouseFunInterestingPaintingShotsBackgroundsDishesInteresting StoriesToenails Author:Carmen Electra
“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!” WayTryingKindHas BeensIdeasHappensWould BeGuyGirlFunBitsWaitingLinesMorningCreativeHappenedWeekPaintingFineApproachConnectionsAskingCornersBusBe CreativeThis GuyIntriguingPostersStalkingFine LinesManipulativeBus StopsMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMindJobsMovingPurposeFunLosesPayPaintingLike YouMonthsBandQuittingOklahoma Author:Josh Jones
“Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.” KindLongFunPaintingBe KindAnimation Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.” AbleWantedFunPaintingSensuality Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because I feel like I need to cover myself up or because I don't feel confident. I wear makeup because it's fun; it's like painting on my face.” NeedsFeelsProblemFacesFunPaintingProudSkinsMakeupNo ProblemWearing Makeup Author:Zendaya
“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.” WayDifferentCultureFunStuffProcessLove IsInterestingPaintingEvolutionPopular CultureContemplativeDisposable Author:Kehinde Wiley