Quotes About Art

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art.

I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.

I can't let darkness be what guides my decisions. I can't let that be what guides how I treat people. I can't let that be what drives my art, either.

'Death & the Roses' came out of ideas about flagellation and guilt and from looking at Piero della Francesca's 'The Flagellation of Christ.'

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

My guitar has, like, become part of me, you know.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I'd like to know how to play the guitar.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

When I watched Guru Dutt's films, they just blew my mind.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

Music is not just love for me; it's a way of life, a habit.

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.