Quotes About Art

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

Acting is actually private.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

It's a real privilege to make movies.

I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually.

Acting is a privilege, and I'm exceedingly blessed to be able to do what I do. At the end of the day, it's all entertainment.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

It's actually a privilege to actually learn how to really dance.

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art; it's a personal expression and it's being done in a unique way.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

Art is the job of the privileged.

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

I really prize and love great painting.

My introduction to art was winning a Weetabix drawing competition: I did a picture of a combine harvester. My sister used to read Jackie magazine in those days, so next I drew a picture of Mark Bolan for them and won a prize.

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.

And I've never really been a makeup pro.