Sunlight is painting.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

Every song is like a painting.

Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.