When I travel I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art I think that's all right.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

My painting teacher in high school used to say 'I can't paint like I want to but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe you see. To be a painter was terrible.

The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play and a journey of some sort.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers novelists playwrights painters have been examining for a long time.

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.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.