Quotes About Art

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

Interestingly enough, the storyboard... that I did for 'Psycho' went precisely as I laid it up, and there was no change on that. And frankly, I myself at that point didn't even really understand the impact that some of these things would have.

Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes the work more challenging.

Rappers were my storytellers.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got very angsty. But comedians are storytellers so it's really a hop, skip and a jump.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

I trained with the American Theatre of Harlem, and by the grace of God, that was my foundation to understanding the art of storytelling and understanding that I'm blessed to be in a play.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.