Quotes About Creativity

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I want to die painting.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

I love painting.