Quotes About Innovation

I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together, but painting fish sounded boring.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

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

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it. This happens whether you do movies, paintings or music.