Christian Louboutin Quotes

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

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.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

I start a picture and I finish it.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

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.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

Make good art.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

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

A good artist has less time than ideas.

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.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?