Alison Mosshart Quotes

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I kind of lose my mind a little bit if I'm not making something.

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

Don't think it, ink it.

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.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

My compulsion is to create things.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

Magic is my paint.

I will preach with my brush.

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.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

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

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

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.

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

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

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