James Franco Quotes

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

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.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I will preach with my brush.

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.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

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 just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

With regards to the paint, I'm normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I hide behind the paint, so to speak, I'm able to let myself go more and move more freely than I can without it.

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.