Quotes About Vision

The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

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

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in order to focus only on their goal. Others have a giant lens, and they take in the whole panorama. I was that pinhole kind of person.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.