Quotes About Art

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Everything has its poetry. 94

The soul paints itself in our machines.

The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.

No era necesario poner lo que uno tenía que decir en un poema, un ensayo, un cuento o una novela. Sólo había que decirlo.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

To me the art of the Counter Reformation was a pure joy and I loved the churches of Bernini and Borromini no less than the ancient basilicas. And this in turn led me to the literature of the Counter Reformation, and I came to know St Theresa and St John of the Cross, compared to whom even the greatest of non-Catholic religious writers seem pale and unreal.19

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

The meaning of a work of art is what the artist wants to communicate to his public through the work, by using a specific language. Since every language has its limitations and its problems of expression, there will be obstacles to communicating certain contents: a work's value is to be found in the ingenuity, the originality, and perhaps the economy of the solutions the artist finds to overcome these obstacles.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder

OK, Arty," I said.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.