Quotes About Art

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

I can hide as much as I want in my colours

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this?

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.