Quotes About Art

Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as TV or film.

I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits.

Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Sometimes in a sculpture, it's interesting to me what's stylized and what's natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.

Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

There's just a spirit about you that it's such a beautiful art form in which you can implement strategy in order to subdue another individual. And I really feel like that's in wrestling and UFC; we're kind of - we collaborate in that way.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.