When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.
I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.
Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
