Quotes About Art

Each creative choice you make has 'x' many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have 'y' many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Most of the independent films I've been involved with all had European subsidy or co-production agreements.

The substance of painting is light.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

Of course, there is no substitute for live performances.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!

This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.