Quotes About Art

Pitching is both an art and a science.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

We want to ensure works are placed with people who collect responsibly.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.

Barcelona is a beautiful city. I love the buildings and the architecture and always enjoy being close to that. It makes sense as an art person to work in places like that, it always feels nice and creative.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

Everybody likes to see a good soft-shoe dance and a song to go with It, but how often do you see It? It's a lost art, just plain hoofing, and I've never heard of anybody who didnt enjoy doing it or watching it.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.