Will Smith Quotes

Through art, you create your own world.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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.

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 put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

I start a picture and I finish it.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

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.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

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

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.

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