Quotes About Art

I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.

'Shan shui' you can literally translate as 'mountain and water.' In traditional Chinese culture, there are a lot of paintings about shan shui, but now we're talking about a shan-shui city.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.

The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.

Translation is the art of failure.

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Translation is at best an echo.

Translation is an act of recreation.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.