Quotes About Motivation

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

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?

I found I have to stay painting.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

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.

You don't need to go to the gym; all you need is a pair of shoes.

I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.

It's wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward.

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

If you stay in your pajamas the whole day, you tend to get lazy and boring.

I did my wholehearted effort to lift Pakistan cricket.

I love Pakistan so I will definitely use all my experience to inspire this team.