Noel Fielding Quotes

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.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

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

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.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I'm an artist at heart.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

My mom is a sculptress.

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