Quotes About Art

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.