Quotes About Perception

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

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.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

With my face paint on, I don't look like a regular black dude.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

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.

The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn't exactly a favorable character.

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 just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.

I've always been painted as this party animal.

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.

The thing about sexiness is that it's been painted as evil.

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.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?