Quotes About Art

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

Some people buy art because they're confident that it'll be a good store value, and this is kind of a recent phenomenon.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums and independent record stores.

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

When I started out, I was more focussed on being creative and wanting to do certain things I hadn't done before. That's great if you're doing fashion as a hobby. But when you want to sell out stores, you need to be very sure of the balance between commerce and art.

I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about them. But I don't want to have my own narrative and force it on to them.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.