Quotes About Art

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to do with it, I just pick good artists!

Development is the first phase. People write a script, you get concept art. You get to a point where you get a green light, which is basically a production company saying they're going to put the money up to make the movie. Then you go into production.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I think, in any profession, what you fear most is not being able to perform, about not being able to meet new challenges. The fear of non-acceptance, particularly if in creative art. What happens if the audiences do not like you anymore!

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

I design for a feminine woman who appreciates art a lot, either as a profession or as a hobby.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix.

I have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a part of this industry.