Quotes About Expression

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I'm a painter in sound.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

I wanted to be a painter.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist - a painter, a sculptor, a filmmaker - will be affected by what's around them, so it seeps into their work.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.