Paul Dano Quotes

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.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I can concentrate on my art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

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.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.