Quotes About Art

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.