Quotes About Artist

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

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

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

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

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

I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

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.

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

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

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.

My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it's straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I'm wearing much.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.