Quotes About Creativity

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

All my album artwork is body painting.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

Easel painting means small painting.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.