Quotes About Art

A huge part of my life as an actor has revolved around fashion and beauty - just by default. It's such a big part of the business.

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.

Fashion is a huge part of my life.

Even though music is a huge part of my life, it doesn't make up the whole picture.

I really enjoy music... it's a huge part of my day, every day.

Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

Music is hugely important to me.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

I love music. I like to sing. But I am not a singer. I hum.

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

I'm inspired by breath, by the human body - by so many things.

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.

I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.