Quotes About Art

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.

I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

The thing that I probably enjoy the most and also am the best at in whatever art form I'm working in is being the protector of the emotional experience of the audience.

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

In any case, 'Nier: Automata' is not a perfect game. But I am proud of everything in it.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so.

My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film 'High Society.'

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.