Quotes About Expression

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

I love film - it's like painting.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

A great painting is a great painting.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800s. I'm not doing that.

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I started painting when I was in high school.