Kate Moss Quotes

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

What I do is create images, period.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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 carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Craft is part of the creative process.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I used to draw a lot.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.