Quotes About Art

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.

I do like to write about dark subjects.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.

What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually.