Quotes About Art

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.

I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.

I'd like to be part of out-of-the-box films like 'Shahid.' I see myself being part of realistic cinema.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.

Making realistic films is basically about the style.

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

I believe good writing can save bad art.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

Good writing is everything.

I am baffled by good writing.

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

I loved 'Goodbye to Language.'

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

When you're in a good play and a good production, you find that you're in something that has a life beyond you. You think, 'Oh my goodness, this play's alive.'

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.