Quotes About Perception

I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

There are folks who now know black families - like the Johnsons on 'Black-ish' or the folks on 'Modern Family.' They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. I'd have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. But it's funny - when you get to your 50s it's not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I'm in my 30s.

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Paint the essential character of things.

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in a different language. It was something that was mysterious about me.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

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 paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

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

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.