To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
I’m inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a ‘less is more’ style.
When people say, ‘Who are you?’ I’m a sculptor and a painter. That’s how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.
My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.
The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.
My dad’s an artist, and my grandfather paints – he’s not a painter; my grandfather’s a butcher – but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.
To be able to run routes, that’s like the greatest thing to me. It’s kind of like an art to me. It’s like a painter drawing or something like that. That’s how I feel every time I run a route.
My mom’s a painter, and she used to wear black all the time, and so do I. So I would say a black T-shirt with a pocket is my go-to.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don’t think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter’s emotions come across?
When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the piano of a famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko, playing an instrument known as a bandura. I remember that one kind of resonated with me; it was always central in the living room.
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
At the end of the day, if you’re an actor, you want to act. And it’s not something you can do in the living room alone. If you’re a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things – we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
I’m an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
I have two sisters that are directors: one’s in documentary, one’s in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I’ve been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don’t do that. Either I’m a singer or a painter. I’m not good at multi-tasking.
I wasn’t always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
Acting is a general thing; it’s not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don’t think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I’m a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I’ve been doing for almost 30 years.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art – I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
If you’re an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you’ve got to change. You’ve got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you’ve been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n’ roll, blues, then do it.
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don’t think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
