Quotes About Art

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.