Quotes About Art

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Performing was something I could cling to. It was the only thing I had some control over and that's why I did it. If I hadn't, I'm not sure which way I'd have gone.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.

Dance is the only thing that makes me feel good.

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.

Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

They all come from the street - tap, jazz and flamenco. And the streets are always changing. If it comes from the streets, change is the only thing that's consistent.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done.

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.