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Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
~ Erin Morgenstern
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
~ Alan Bean
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
~ Vikram Seth
I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
~ Zac Efron
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
~ Philip Guston
Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.
~ Willie Cauley-Stein
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
~ Jim Henson
I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.
~ Amy Sherald
I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.
~ Margrethe II of Denmark
I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.
~ Daniela Vega
I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.
~ Iman Shumpert
It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
~ Amy Sherald
I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.
~ Jonathan Winters
Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.
~ Vangelis
Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.
~ Wamiqa Gabbi
You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
~ Leonora Carrington
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
~ Taylor Swift
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
~ Sophia Bush
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
~ Thomas Kinkade
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
~ Barbara Smith
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
~ Richard Attenborough
A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.
~ Evan Rachel Wood
I paint abstract expressions.
~ Billy Zane