Quotes About Art

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in any cinema hall, where you are not with like-minded people.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.

I don't prepare for my characters.

Acting is an art that I am learning on the job. The thing that I can do on my part is to follow and prepare myself for the characters that I choose to play.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Hands have a major presence in flamenco, and when your hands are decorated, it adds power.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

The Art of Living course is designed to detox the body, and in this process the body is left calmer, and people are left with a lot more clarity and presence of mind.

I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.