Peter Lindbergh Quotes

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

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.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Art is an investigation.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.