Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Quotes

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

I can concentrate on my art.

When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

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.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Artists need to express.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

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.

Making art is different for everyone.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

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.

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.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.