Quotes About Art

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.