Quotes About Art

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art.

Anybody working on storytelling has my respect.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

I so wish to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali because his creativity is of a different level. His vision, his style of storytelling, art and music... Everything mesmerizes me.

Storytelling was always a passion for me.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

I come from straight theater.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

I can't draw a straight line.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

The straight line is ungodly.

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.