Quotes About Individuality

When I was with my second husband, I'd always paint my nails and go to bed with my make-up on; he loved all that.

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

I don't want to be painted any one color and that can happen to you in Hollywood if you make a hit in a particular role.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, 'The Painter,' but the nickname I prefer is the one I got from Captain Francesco Totti, 'The Little Prince.'

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

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.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.