Quotes About Inspiration

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

I used to paint.

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was creative as a child and studied art at Central Saint Martins before getting into food.

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.

I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

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