David Thewlis Quotes

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.

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

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

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

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I will preach with my brush.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

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

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

I paint paintings of people.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.

Artists need to express.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.