Peter Capaldi Quotes

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

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.

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

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.

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.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

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.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.