Susan Vreeland Quotes

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

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.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

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

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

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

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

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

Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.