Quotes About Art

Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense.

We have incredibly talented fans. Anytime we receive fan art or especially if they post it online and tag us, we usually share that with everybody else.

I have a problem with the star tag itself. I believe I am an actor.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Singing makes me so happy and feeds my soul so much that I almost wouldn't want it to get tainted and become this work thing.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

If there's a scene in which I need to cry or emote heavily, I just take care of it during the dubbing sessions.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

Nick Cardy's work helped define some of the things we see in comics today and take for granted. He broke out of the mold in terms of covers and layout and created a truly interactive experience for the reader that directly points back to his time with the Eisner studio.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.