Quotes About Inspiration

I just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I have never been much of a painter.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer.

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.