Quotes About Art

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

Wiseman's films are some of the most pure cinema, and to take a journey in a Wiseman film is like no other. He's been doing it so long, with a body of over 40 films!

An artist shouldn't be judged by how many people like his art but by how pure and good it is - but I think that when you're telling jokes, which is more what I'm doing, if people aren't laughing, you're telling bad jokes.

Pure dance form is not dying.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

No film can do well purely on the basis of dance.

When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.