Jason Momoa Quotes

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

My art completes my life.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.