Quotes About Art

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Poetry doesn't necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some old 17th century thing that no one really understands. I think that those boundaries should be broken down!

It's very important for humans to see dance, it's a language that everybody understands.

It's not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.

Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older.

To say the 'Save My Soul' video means a lot to me would be an understatement of stupendous proportions.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what he was saying.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.