Quotes About Creativity

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

I love film - it's like painting.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

A great painting is a great painting.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.