Painted Quotes

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.