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“Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.”

Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

“In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.”

“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.”

Mind Made Ideas Creation Painting Communication Discovery Tools Depth Pulling

Author:Jim Rowe

“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!”

Ifs World Want Able Film Lost Hours Powerful Wonder Painting Tools Staring

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.”

Thinking Feels Process Painting Degrees Tools Drawing Sculpture Fondness Carving Erasers

Author:Robert Longo

“What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.”

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Author:Michael Marisi Ornstein