Matt Bomer Quotes

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

A lot of artists need structure.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

I do my stuff, my "mixtapes," as you say. We just need time to capture. After that, I do not know what he thinks, but for me, it is time to get things together.