Quotes About Creativity

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I have never been much of a painter.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

I think of me being a painter eventually.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.