Ellar Coltrane Quotes

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

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!

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

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.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

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

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

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

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

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

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.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.