Art Quotes
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Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.
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Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
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Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
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I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
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I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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Competition is the death of art.
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
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I had to find the courage to share not only myself but my art with the world. I faced fear, and I went for it. I wasn't a failure, and I'm very proud of myself.
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Art is made in hindsight.
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.
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I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
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A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
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I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
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I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.
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There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
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We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.
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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
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Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
