Quotes About Art

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

When I'm designing, I'm thinking about what it would be like to wear that piece.

Since I was 5, I was bitten by the bug of designing. It was all around me in my home.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

I love our Polynesian designs, whether or not it is coming from Samoa, as I have some of my designs coming from, or right from home in O'ahu.

I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any other form of art.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.