Jim Henson Quotes

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My painting does not come from the easel.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

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 feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I will preach with my brush.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

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.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.