I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.
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.
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!
Oh, I paint all the time.
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.
I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
I thought, 'How cool would it be to paint Donald Trump in Donald Trump's house with Donald Trump there.'
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
I want paint to work as flesh.
