Quotes About Creativity

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.