Quotes About Art

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

I never did a nude shoot, I always kept myself limited to bikini shoots. This, however, does not mean that I look down on individuals who pose nude for shoots.

In manga, nothing actually moves, and you just have to draw the poses in each panel, but in anime, you have to draw the movements between those poses.

My style is very strong poses and expressions.

Most photo shoots are a beautiful dress, a natural location, and poses.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we're not marketable or where we can't win.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.

I got possessed by music as an infant.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

I am increasingly excited about the artistic possibilities of the Internet.