Quotes About Art

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

I don't expect to be another Walt Disney, but I do get a terrific bang out of being able to say things with pictures. Maybe that means something deep and profound about me - but I doubt it.

When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.

I love music, I love to sing, but I am terrified of singing in public.

Performing was terrifying.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

Music is beyond races, beyond territories.

I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.

We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys, terror. That's what art is about, and we don't want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.