Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.