Quotes About Art

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

I'm interested in loving, beautiful, sexy images... I also want the images to be a turn on, create an adrenaline high, a rush of desire so intense that the act of looking is sexual.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

You have to first experience what you want to express

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.