Quotes About Art

I'm interested in everything. If I had enough time on this earth, I'd like to learn every art practice.

Hair is a beautiful form of self-expression.

I do it for myself and for like-minded people. Half the time I don't know why I make what I do. I'd do this if no one was listening. I'm stuck. I've got the curse.

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

I was associated with Shaimak Davar for three and a half years and learnt a lot from him.

'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.

'Annie Hall' and 'The Graduate' are incredible films. Why should we be deprived of watching them because some of the men that made them are bad?

'Hamilton' has restored my faith in theater.

When I saw 'Hamilton,' there was so much information so fast, I had to keep up with it. I find that quality in art exhilarating.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Not every Hammer film was perfect.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

That's what high school does for you: gives you some art and music and history so that even if you spend your life raising kids and writing computer programs, still there was a time when you argued about the First Amendment and talked about the Civil War and read Romeo and Juliet.

Be a writer, if you will Or don't, no one will care Order your shelves, or not Kill or kiss your darlings Simply write

live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake , a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished' * --Czeslaw Milosz. * And, I might add, if the family isn't finished, then the writer is.

Dead is dead, we know where to file another person's extinction, but the artist purposely zoomed in on the living, or, to be more accurate, the forced-to-be-living and the soon-to-be-dead. Grainy

But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this.

Senderovsky to Ed: When I stopped falling in love. My art died.

The bookshelves were lined with Joan Didion and Flannery O'Connor, a small, unexpected collection of musicalia, essay collections on Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. There was a framed poster of an exhibit of romantic landscape paintings in Dresden. Intellectuals had their own thing going, that was for sure.

Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished.