Steven Rodney McQueen Quotes

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the imagination of our mind. It is very powerful. Therefore, I always cater to my own sensibility first and then to the world.

No director can ever deliver what's on his or her mind totally, but 'Baahubali-2' is the closest I can get in executing what I had envisaged onto the celluloid.

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.