Quotes About Art

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

I knew you were no longer mine when you no longer see me as something dazzling that made you lose your mind. You don't see me as the artwork you once fell in love with.

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.

But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don't imagine I shall have more luck than they.

The pen is my true salvation. God is not.

All I care for is the inclusion of my name in the list of the believers of the supremacy of human soul over all other masterpieces He has ever produced.