Quotes About Art

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

I'm thinking about doing dusty colors - we definitely are doing as much color as we can. It seems that fashion is back on track with color - I hope. It's been very black for awhile.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.