Quotes About Art

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Most ceramic plates, bowls, and cups have an unglazed rim around the very bottom, where the piece was in contact with the floor of the kiln. This unglazed ceramic is harder than metal and can be used just like a sharpening stone.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

After 'Yevade Subramanyam', I figured out that I want to make movies that would have a lifespan and be useful in some way.

I find humming is very useful.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.