Diana Krall Quotes

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

Art is both creation and recreation.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

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

Make good art.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.