Quotes About Art

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.

But stand-up is also one of the few art forms where women aren't judged on their appearance - possibly the only one where people are actually there to listen to what they say on stage.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.

If you don't trust your own judgment as an artist, as someone who has contributed to a work of art, then why do it?

I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

Artists are great. They jump in.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.

It's important for everyone to just be able to express themselves in whatever way.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.