Lou Doillon Quotes

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

I feel like I'm a really artsy person. I love to tie-dye shirts and bake and just do nerdy and fun stuff.

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

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.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

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

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.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.