Quotes About Reflection

I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can't. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours.

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.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist - a painter, a sculptor, a filmmaker - will be affected by what's around them, so it seeps into their work.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

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

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.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

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.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.