Quotes About Art

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time.

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love, ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it.