Quotes About Art

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.

The only way independent cinema can come out of its own rut is by learning to be more consistent. An indie filmmaker should feel responsible for others as well.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for yourself, it's just the way it is.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

Public art is a unique type of art. It's very different to gallery art because it is something that we pass by every day and it inevitably creates a lot of discussion in a way that gallery art does not.

Once you become a curator, you will inevitably end up on TV, if only to talk about your latest exhibition.

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

I believe that music is infinite.

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.