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Quotes About Creativity

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
~ Marcel Duchamp
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
~ Frank Stella
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
~ Damian Loeb
I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.
~ Mrunal Thakur
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
~ Dawn French
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
~ Shahzia Sikander
I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.
~ Gael Monfils
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
~ Giorgio Moroder
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
~ Max Beckmann
I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together, but painting fish sounded boring.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
~ Jackson Pollock
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
~ Mary Quant
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
~ Joan Miro
I've been painting since I was a kid.
~ Dan Amboyer
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
~ Jessalyn Gilsig
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
~ Larry Poons
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
~ Peter Wright
A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.
~ John Mellencamp
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
~ John Hurt
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
~ Robert Ryan
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
~ Pharrell Williams