Max Cannon Quotes

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

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

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

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

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

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

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

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

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

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.