Quotes About Creativity

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.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I'm a painter in sound.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.