Quotes About Art

A lot of people have got into it because of money, but true comedians do it because they can't help it, and feel slightly removed doing anything else. That were case with me.

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

Acting has made me a nicer, happier and a slightly richer person, too.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons.

If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.

I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and the story inside the heart of each actor. Art and life are linked, and expressed through my actors.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I will learn how to cook and pursue it as my hobby.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.

My sense of cinema improved slowly as I started watching South cinema, got to know that cinema is much appreciated here.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

I loved the idea that acting was something you could develop into slowly; something you could study.