Quotes About Art

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives.

Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

All the stuff we have to edit out of our music, we put in our kids book.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can make art only from their knowledge - and ours - that they were child stars.

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

I shot 'Poppin' in L.A. because I love L.A. Because when I came out here, I fell in love with it.

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

Eventually, the outcome of a film is not in my hands. What I do while making the film is in my hands, and that is what translates onto the screen.

Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

It's just weird that for some people, art is a luxury. My parents had no artistic outlet. Some people pass down music to their kids, but I couldn't tell you what my mom's or dad's favorite song is. So when I started going out into the world, I was drawn to people who knew about movies, art, even fashion.

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.