Quotes About Art

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your mind.

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

I like working in TV, but my real love is making movies.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it.

The ability to create anything I want without rules is the real thing I love about drag.

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

Actors don't have real value.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.