Leven Rambin Quotes

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

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

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.