Quotes About Art

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

I like creating images.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

Images and music are very connected.

It's so important for women to create images of women - or any group, at that.

I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm an artist, and I think most artists do have personal images. I consider myself more in that category of the way an artist had a look.

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

I don't over-photoshop my images; I really don't like to do that so much.

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If you're in the business of communication and images, then if you ignore the media-sphere you're just cutting off your own foot. It's just daft.

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

'Baadshaho' is not an imaginative film, it's real and made it an entertaining way.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

I never imagined I would be in colourful costumes and dance!