Quotes About Inspiration

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I'm a painter in sound.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.

When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, 'The Painter,' but the nickname I prefer is the one I got from Captain Francesco Totti, 'The Little Prince.'

I wanted to be a painter.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist - a painter, a sculptor, a filmmaker - will be affected by what's around them, so it seeps into their work.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.