Quotes About Art

I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.

Acting is acting, regardless of the medium.

Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.

The whole point of creativity is that it has no boundaries of language, region, and age.

I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

Whatever I have been doing in regional cinema, is restricted to the region.

I'm open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama.

Drag is very regional.

Bhojpuri industry is my motherland, and I would keep doing more regional films. But I also want to reach out to a bigger audience.

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.

I don't really regret much of my music life.

My biggest fear is that I might end up doing a film which I might regret at a later point of time.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

I don't got no regrets with any of my tats.