Art Quotes

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." "Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering" "Take your broken heart, make it into art" "To be an actor, you have to be a child" "The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie" "I paint flowers so they will not die" "I never paint dreams or nightmares I paint my own reality" "The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it." "Film is the art of lying, 24 lies per second." "The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it." "The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing." "All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic." "The highest form of art is the expression of pure thought." "Art is the capture of a moment in eternal time." "The most exciting thing about film is it gives you a voice, it lets you be heard" "Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth" "The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before." "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art --write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself." "Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't."