I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter. " So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.
Oh, I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints.
The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.
I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
