Quotes About Art

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.