Quotes About Art

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

I would love if film doesn't disappear, if we can have film forever so we would have all these brushes, all these possibilities available.

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Express yourself in any way possible.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned, that is fine.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.