Quotes About Art

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

I make a little music every day just because it's fun.

Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for my own self-expression.

I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

As a professional actor, you have to do a lot of things and a steamy number is just one of them.

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

I love singing. I can't say it sounds good; it's just something I like doing.

No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn to things that seemed impossible.

I have a background in theater - I went to school for theater. I love film - love it - but there's just something about theater that I really miss.

Anytime people engage in something creative or just something they are really passionate about, obviously, it's hard to separate your personal feelings from what it is you are making.

But acting is just something I do. It's not a passion like filmmaking is.

Since I danced really intensely, singing was more just something that I enjoyed.