Quotes About Perspective

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

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

I don't know what I'm painted as. I can be happy as hell and then someone says something and I feel different. People are going to say whatever they want to say to... get people to read their story. I just ask people to write the whole, complete story.

I have never been much of a painter.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

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

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.

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

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.