Quotes About Expression

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.