Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Sound comes out of a life experience.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Comprehension follows perception.

I just watched a James Brown video of him singing 'I Feel Good,' and then I kind of just copied off his moves. But I couldn't do them properly, so they turned into my own moves.

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind.

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.