Quotes About Art

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

People want to see things that are visually beautiful.

There is still a future with music, because people want music

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it's a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!