Quotes About Art

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

I don't really believe that all theater needs to be filmed - for some things, the special part of live theater is that it exists and then it's gone.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

About film direction, nothing is impossible. Maybe someday, you will see me donning the director's hat.

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.

As I got older, I fell more in love with movies and thought it would be incredible to someday be in one.

I would love to do a dance film someday.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.