Quotes About Art

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.