Paula Malcomson Quotes

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.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

I want to work in art forever.

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

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.