Quotes About Creativity

When I started working at Pictures On Walls, I'd been hanging out with Banksy for a few years travelling around the world together painting stuff, and then we moved into a new office and wanted to do screenprinting.

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.

I wouldn't want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.

Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.

We have four million pictures of sports events and add 5,000 a week. If I was 14, I'd have them all over my walls.

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

I used a '57 Les Paul on one track, 'These Walls', which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down because the sarode is naturally in C but I tuned the guitar down to D and he came up to D. It was all a pretty simple setup.

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

When I was a kid I painted the walls in my room like 30 times!

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

There are many different artforms that are just being lost because the whole digital revolution has homogenized everything, turned it all into Walmart.

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.

There's nothing like rehearsing a waltz to a Stormzy track. It's hard to compare it to anything!

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.