Quotes About Art

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time & hard work - 'The Life Line,' 'Peril on the Sea,' 'Eight Bells,' 'Mending Tears,' - all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

The lyrics of 'Ekla Akash' brought tears to my eyes.

For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.

You absolutely cannot be big time tech guy without attending Burning Man.

My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

My music is more native than intricate or technical.

I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

Well, all baking is a technical challenge as far as I'm concerned.

Love scenes in general are the most technical things to shoot.