Quotes About Interpretation

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

I paint abstract expressions.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

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.

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.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

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.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

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