Adam Jones Quotes

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.