Actors and Art
Actors' quotes about art
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In this section you will find actors and directors' thought, opinions and quotes about art. Celebrities express their views about visual and performative arts, from painting to music, from sculpture to theater, and of course filmmaking.
“As any other form of Art, cinema is only important if used to open doors to discussion and to talk about the things that you don't want to hear. Otherwise it's just a mere object of vanity.”
“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”
“Art is the familiar through new eyes.”
“I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
“Reality may be very interesting, but a work of art must be a creation.”
“Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.”
“I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.”
“Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.”
“I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.”
“Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.”
“I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.”
“Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray.”
“Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you.”
“For me, art cures.”
“I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do.”
“All writers are vampires.”
“I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.”
“I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.”
“I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.”
“How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.”
“Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever.”
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