Quotes About Art

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.

I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun.

I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

I was a great fan of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy; they always inspired me.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

I feel there is no harm in recreating songs.

Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.