Quotes About Inspiration

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

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.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother.

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

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.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the same in modelling.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.

It's wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward.

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

There are some galaxies that not only teach us things but are just gorgeously beautiful to look at. My favorite example is the Antenne, which is a pair of colliding galaxies.

Sometimes I'll have words or concepts written down before I have any type of music or anything. So when I have that, sometimes I just hear a beat and, if I feel like it'll match with the story that I have written down sonically, then I'll just pair them together.