William Jay Smith Quotes

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.