Rosanne Cash Quotes

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.