For the love of painting...

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent van Gogh

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour... How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. 

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.

Ally Condie

A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.

Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

Paint + Time + Losing myself in it = Bliss