Quotes About Art

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing.

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

With 'The Missing Picture,' we'd shot for a year and a half already when this idea of the clay figurine, the life that comes from the earth, came to me, and I changed everything.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the biggest mistake when you're creating art.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between buyers and sellers.