Quotes About Expression

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I take a lot of pictures.

Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

I paint pictures with my raps.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.