Quotes About Creativity

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

I can paint in jail.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.