Quotes About Art

I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to project their own experiences of the world into this thing. That's kind of what art is kind of all about.

For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment... and we have to manage the game; that's the art of a great team.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

It's a great thing if you're a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it's great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they're doing.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network execs to do my art.

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

Film festivals is a great way to display good cinema.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

I watch a lot of Malayalam films and admire them greatly. The films have such wonderful content.

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.

You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a work of art.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.