Quotes About Art

Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids, even if they look alike.

My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.

I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren't doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

I realised that in my last two bodies of work - the mural and the Chanel pieces - that I didn't use any make-up because I was changing the faces digitally, and I realised I missed make-up in a major way.

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level.

I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

I have realised acting is my heartbeat and my lifeline.

You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

The idea of social realist art and of Marxist journalism was that: 'We're going to tell people not what things were like, but what they should be like, and what they will be like, and we'll get them to keep focusing on the future.'

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.