Quotes About Inspiration

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting.

Both my parents were painters.

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I want to die painting.

People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.