“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” WantKindSaidTodayActorsSoundStupidPaintingConsciousPainterPainting A Picture Author:Franka Potente
“In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.” IfsWellsLooksKindPersonsArtDoneBeautifulSpiritSoundVisionRecordsPlayerPaintingEarsGuitarDrawingSingersArtisticRisingSongwritersRepresentationTestamentHookSculptureGuitar PlayerDaveArtistic VisionCobain Author:Krist Novoselic
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.” ThinkingMeanFormSoundColorPaintingInstrumentsSakeDrawingExcitementPalette Author:John French Sloan
“As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.” MayLanguageSoundStrangePaintingDependsBlue Author:Guy Deutscher
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.” TryingHandsForceSoundPaintingMastersInstrumentsMusicalDrivenToneUnseenMusical InstrumentsLoomingUnseen Forces Author:Arnold Friberg
“I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsStoriesReadingSoundTreeStagePaintingBird Author:Ali Banisadr
“Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.” IfsTryingLooksSoundImpossiblePaintingPerceivePatheticDescribing Author:John Lennox
“Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.” MeanI CanMatterSpeakSoundPaintingDemandCreatingMusicianSingingWeightInstrumentsDeeperColourTransparencyLighters Author:Laurence Equilbey
“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.” IfsWould BeBeautifulFilmMovingTurnsSoundStrangePaintingWindUniqueMouthsMoodLayersPortraitsCapturedMona LisaCelluloid Author:David Lynch
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.” ArtRealSoundSpacePaintingUniqueEssenceEarsRelationMathematicsMajorityWaveLocalsPostsPlanesDryGossipCanvasOur ThoughtsTime And SpaceSequenceSymphonyPigmentArt LifeSound Waves Author:David Mumford
“The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.” TryingSoundVoiceMy OwnPaintingTricksMaskAccurateAccentsSketching Author:Anthony Hopkins