Quotes About Art

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.