Quotes About Art

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music you just want to sit still. Like Claude Debussy - I couldn't dance to that.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.