Quotes About Art

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

All of my novels are democracies.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.

Minimal art went nowhere.

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.