Quotes About Art

A lot of things in films are cheated with the use of camera tricks, so while it may feel unnatural to do, when you look at the result, you realise that it is right.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.

Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.

It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement.

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.

I love music with a violence and a fury that feels unqualified.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.