Ilka Chase Quotes

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

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

I'm just looking to explore every medium to express my talent, but I think mostly it's going to be a focus on features.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.