We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
You wrote my thoughts For all the world to see Painted the sky With immortal words
A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
