Quotes About Art

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

I love dancing.

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

I love dancing, and I always have.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

I've always had that feeling for the dark side, for the anger and the hate-rock. The music is just the way I deal with it.

Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have.

I'm very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don't see those kind of stories.

I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.

I'm drawn to stuff with a certain darkness, and darkness with beauty within it.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

I don't know if the art of stand-up will survive. Stand-up seems dated. Now you can do a mini-movie or a short with a beginning, middle, and end. A guy standing there seems a little old - especially when you can go on the Internet and see 'Funny or Die.'

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

My daughters are my Picassos.

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.