Quotes About Creativity

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.