Quotes About Art

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

I do tend to fall to the dark side of things visually sometimes.

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write, because that tends to be a little forced.

Personally, I enjoyed school as much as the next kid. I was into art and every sport going from football to table tennis, so I kept busy. I never bunked a day off and left with 9 GCSEs, if I remember correctly.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.