Quotes About Expression

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

I want paint to work as flesh.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

I paint abstract expressions.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

I can paint in jail.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.