Quotes About Experience

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

My trade and art is to live.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Music takes us where words cannot.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.