Quotes About Art

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

You should almost always draw in pen. It forces you to be confident. You can never erase, so it makes you really focus on your line and not wimp out.

I have always been a pencil.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

The Beatles showed with 'Sgt. Pepper's' that you can make an album out of anything, just make it seem like it's connected.

An actor should not bother about the camera per se, and what kind it is.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.