Sante D'Orazio Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

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.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

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've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

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

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

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.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I treat my projects as art.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.