Quotes About Creativity

My family encouraged me to paint, but I was never allowed to go to the theater. Naturally, this made me interested in the theater.

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.