Creed Bratton Quotes

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

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

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.