Francis Bacon Quotes

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Artists need to express.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I don't control anything I create.

Making art is different for everyone.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

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

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.

The thing about the creative process is it's so chaotic.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Energy and art go where they will.