Quotes About Art

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

I have succeeded at times and failed at others, but I am here to do good cinema.

It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.

The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.

I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.

Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.