David Johansen Quotes

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

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.

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.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

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.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

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

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

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.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.