Quotes About Art

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

I'm a big Quentin Tarantino fan.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for the meaning of things. That can come off as beauty and style, but that's not where I start from.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

When the photographer is nearby, I like to say, 'Quick, get a photo of me looking into the camera,' because I'm never looking into the camera. Christopher Nolan looks into the camera, but I think most directors don't, so whenever you see a picture of a director looking at the camera, it's fake.

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.