Quotes About Expression

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I found I have to stay painting.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

I hate painting.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.