Brian Fallon Quotes

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.'

The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That's 100% her.

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.

I do very versatile music.

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

A good poet's made as well as born.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.