Quotes About Art

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

I love to play around and have fun with my lyrics, but sometimes the messages are raw, and I also like to get emotional with them.

I love listening to demos. They're so raw.

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

I've always been drawn to raw material.

My life changed when I was introduced to Satyajit Ray. It was acting for me thereafter.

I feel lucky to have worked with Satyajit Ray.