Quotes About Art

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!