Quotes About Art

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

Ho sempre avuto più paura di una penna, di una bottiglietta d'inchiostro e di un foglio di carta che non di una spada o di una pistola.

comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens.

I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.

Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

Theatre is the most democratic side of literature.

One sees that history is an art gallery where there are few originals and many copies.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Meu amor pelo cinema é mais importante do que qualquer moral

The only way for me to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Mi amor por el cine es más grande que mi moral.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.