Quotes About Art

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

I have always said some of the finest filmmakers in the country have come out of Bengal.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get sick of working on it or you walk away.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.