Quotes About Art

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

I really liked Quentin Blake, who did all of Roald Dahl's stuff. I don't think I really got Quentin Blake as a kid, but as I grew older, I really appreciated the kind of knowledge and the skill that went into those seemingly effortless drawings, and I really wanted to capture some of that in my own work.

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.

I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.

It's a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It's quite a different form, and I think I have to respect that.

Being able to do a role where you learn a new skill is just such a dream. I recently played a potter and got to learn pottery.

I think there's an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.

Thats part of what I love about photography - the images I like are the ones that look the most relaxed, but a lot of skill goes into making them look that that relaxed.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

If you think about feudal China during times of the emperors, food was a very elevated art form and you had to be really skilled.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.