Quotes About Art

I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

I think one of the main reasons I write is to do better than ranting. The ranting is the opinion, and the writing is not the opinion. I always say that people's opinions are the worst things about them. The words demand a dignity.

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.

That's why I love jiu-jitsu, this is the best martial art in the world. It's an art that seeks the peace, to dominate your opponent.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

More often than not, the fans really gravitate towards who's on the cover as opposed to how it's drawn or how it's composed, and so, a lot of the time, what an artist likes will be very different from what a fan likes.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.