Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

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

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

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

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

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.

Magic is my paint.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.