Quotes About Art

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.

Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful and happy that you're getting paid for your art. We are told to put our own stuff aside, but doesn't everyone have a job they should just shut up and do?

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

I took to cinema because I found cinema was the medium for what I wanted to say through 'Shutter;' it was something beyond the scope of a play.

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.

Not every film I do is going to be like 'Selma,' but every film I do can be edifying, can be something that points toward I believe to be true. I'm not one to shy away from darkness in movies as long as there is light.

I was a very shy kid and really into art.

Human beings are created with empathy. Art serves that purpose. So why should I be disinterested in a character who's a man, and why should a man shy away from a show that's female-driven?

Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.

We received our initial inspiration from our family, as from childhood we exhibited an inclination towards art. While Johns randomly drew pictures, I used to present dramas for my siblings. But when we grew up, we both got addicted to our interests and it was fueled by political activism.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.