Quotes About Art

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

I always prefer a good script, be it a movie or drama script.

I prefer working behind the camera.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

I prefer doing feature films.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.

I prefer black music in general.

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.