Taylor Negron Quotes

[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.

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

I love painting and have a need to do it.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

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

Magic is my paint.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

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

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Art is spiritual.

Nature engenders the science of painting.