Quotes About Expression

I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I have never been much of a painter.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.