“When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.” FirstsDesirePleasurePaintingMetaphorImagery Author:Will Cotton
“Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.” MadeModernPaintingMetaphorImpulseSoleEntry Author:Andre Breton
“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.” IfsGivingLongI CanDifferentLeftBlackRoomsActingStageColorPaintingDirectorsRedGreenPaintMetaphorBrownEditingReally GreatPurpleActing In MoviesRed And Black Author:Scott Glenn
“Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.” ConsciousnessPaintingMetaphor Author:Nigel Cooke