Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

Artists are like everybody else.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

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

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

Normal people do not create art.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.