Marge Simon Quotes

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

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

I start a picture and I finish it.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

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.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

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

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.