Richard MacDonald Quotes

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

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.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But every time I would try to sit down and be an illustrator or painter, it was just not my best use.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

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

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

I want to bring art into everything.