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Quotes About Expression

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
~ Jessica Alba
The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.
~ Matthew Macfadyen
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
~ Hilary Hahn
You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting.
~ Ari Shaffir
Both my parents were painters.
~ Jason Momoa
I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.
~ Grayson Perry
Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.
~ John Densmore
My painting does not come from the easel.
~ Jackson Pollock
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~ Robert Delaunay
I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
~ Yayoi Kusama
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
~ Pierre Bonnard
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
~ Hans Hofmann
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
~ Jonathan Davis
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
~ Catherine Deneuve
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
~ Shailene Woodley
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
~ Sergei Eisenstein
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
~ Pablo Picasso
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
~ Philip Guston
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
~ Joni Mitchell
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
~ Mark Rothko
I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.
~ Kirsty Gallacher
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
~ Caspar David Friedrich