Quotes About Art

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

I love clever lyrics.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

I love lyrics that are not too clever.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

I'm a big believer in the benefit of a home studio. You're sitting there and maybe you don't know the next line. So you go outside for a second, maybe. Make a sandwich. Play with the dog. Or watch an episode of 'The Office,' whatever. And then it clicks, you run back into the room, and you've got it. It's not like your creativity is on the clock.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

Art cinema is easier to do as situations in it are closer to real life.

I love writing. It is the closest thing to me after being an actor.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked like concept art for 'BoJack.' It's kind of uncanny.

I did clown training for months.

I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three years, and you're taught clowning and mask work.