Erin Morgenstern Quotes

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

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.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

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

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

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that thing is where you have that kind of output.

Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.

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

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.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

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

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

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!