Quotes About Art

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

I think, what happened with 'Dead Silence' is that other people told us that we should be doing that and now that I look back, I realize, 'should' is not a word that comes into an art. It's whatever you're feeling like doing.

Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'

Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of no dialogue in his films.

Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?

When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.

I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films.

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

Ever since I made the short film 'Black And White,' which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated me.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht.

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.