Quotes About Creativity

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.

I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.

Designers are not artists. They may have the talent of one, but if they want to work in that way they should paint or sculpt.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

With my face paint on, I don't look like a regular black dude.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

I play the piano, paint, and go for trekking.

I used to paint.

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as Polaroid-photo collage and fax painting.

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it's just a good time.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was creative as a child and studied art at Central Saint Martins before getting into food.

I used to be a nanny and the kids used to laugh at me when I'd say 'Shall we paint something?' They just wanted to go on their iPads.