Quotes About Art

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I think it's important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that's a problem. You've got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you're going to make full use of it.

I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

I believe short films are more organic. It's almost like doing theatre. It just takes few takes.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

I came to singing organically.

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.

It might sound naive, but for me, you know, for me, the important part is kind of making process. So I'm not super result oriented, and I just, like, kind of getting lost in the process of making something.

I would like to be a part of a movie which is based on dancing as I think I can showcase my skills completely in a dance oriented film.

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.