Quotes About Expression

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

Oh, I paint all the time.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

I thought, 'How cool would it be to paint Donald Trump in Donald Trump's house with Donald Trump there.'

I love to paint.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.