Quotes About Art

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.

We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.

I love storytelling.

To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.

I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

Storytelling is my true passion.

I really love storytelling.

I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.

Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

I do love storytelling.