Quotes About Art

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

When "husbandry" becomes "science," the lowly has been exalted and the rustic has become urbane. Purporting to increase the sophistication of the humble art of farming, this change in fact brutally oversimplifies it.

As Walter Shewring rightly said, both "the plowman and the potter have a cosmic function." And bad art in any trade dishonors and damages Creation.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.