Quotes About Art

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

A film sells feelings.

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

People take music too seriously.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.