Quotes About Expression

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.