Gerard Malanga Quotes

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

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.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

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

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

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.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

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.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.