Top 496 Art Quotes

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I went to art school when I was little.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

I've always been interested in art.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.