Quotes About Artistry

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

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.

With my face paint on, I don't look like a regular black dude.

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

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.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

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

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.

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.

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

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

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.

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

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.