Dale Earnhardt Jr. Quotes

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

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.

I can paint in jail.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Jazz is my adventure.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.