Sean Lennon Quotes

Through art, you create your own world.

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.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art is an investigation.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

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.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

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.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

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

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.