Quotes About Art

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

I love the concept of albums, and I love owning albums.

I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way.

Films are like oxygen for me.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

You do a straight play for three months, four months, maybe. It's so brief. And then you're on to the next thing. I loved that. I love that rhythm and that pace.

Cinema is not about wearing 'bikni' and showing 'six packs'... All these are secondary.

Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.

I live for the blank page.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

What you write on the page has nothing to do with when you're on set. When you're on set, it has nothing to do with when you're in the editing room. And when you're in the editing room, it has nothing to do with the final movie. You just have to let it go.

Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.