Quotes About Creativity

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I found I have to stay painting.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

I hate painting.

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.