Quotes About Creativity

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.