Quotes About Imagination

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

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.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

I love film - it's like painting.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

A great painting is a great painting.

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.