I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!
Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
Alicia: [Bob brings Alicia in] Jack, you said I could watch you improve the paintings. The Joker: Well I'm in trouble now.
I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the sa...
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.
Isabelle: [watching A Trip to the Moon] It's in color! Mama Jeanne: Of course it is, we tinted them. We painted them by hand, frame by frame.
[Encountering a painting of the Ark of the Covenant] Elsa: What's this? Indiana Jones: Ark of the Covenant. Elsa: Are you sure? Indiana Jones: Pretty sure.
Rayburn: A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.
Harmonica: [to Frank, spotting a gunman above a painted clock] Time sure flies! It's already past twelve.
R.F. Simpson: Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!" Lina: [with a voice to peel paint] Well of *course* we talk. Don't everybody?
Jethro's daughter: Is it true that Egyptian girls paint their eyes? Moses: Yes, but very few have eyes as beautiful as yours.
Marlon: Look at that sunset, Truman. It's perfect. Truman: Yeah. Marlon: That's the big guy. Quite a paint brush he's got.
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
