Quotes About Art

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

NSD gave me the vision to see further and they exposed me to integrated works, right from working on the backstage to even doing the costumes.

The sound itself, the production, is of such great importance that it has become an integrated part of the composition.

If it is a good film, the audience will like it. They will take to it if it is made with a certain amount of integrity.

Let's not betray cinema with marketing inside the film. If it's done outside, then it's ok. That is essential to integrity.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.

I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in an intelligent way and then they are replicated, that's a beautiful thing. If you make things in a bad way and they are replicated, the wrong is multiplied.

Why should I make films for some intelligent people?

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.