Quotes About Art

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

People of Pakistan don't want a ban on Indian content in their country, but it is their politicians who want it. In our country too, politicians want to ban their art and artists.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.