Quotes About Creativity

I wanted to be a painter.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist - a painter, a sculptor, a filmmaker - will be affected by what's around them, so it seeps into their work.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting.

Both my parents were painters.

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.