Quotes About Expression

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.