Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.
If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.
Just to paint is great fun. . . Try it if you have not done so - before you die.
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.
I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would.
Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.
Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a really funny Robert De Niro. " As an actor, though, you look at different aspects of a character. I try to completely surround myself with the assignment. It's like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through.
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.