Quotes About Art

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video.

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

I get most of my inspiration from anime and video games.

I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.

You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

'Papo & Yo' is an incredibly emotional experience. It shows that video games can talk about anything, even the most personal and sensitive matters.

Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

I would love to make video games.

Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.