Ann Nocenti Quotes

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.

If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach out and start collaborating. But when it comes to the record sleeves and the tour posters, I'm usually quite particular.

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when there's no music that accompanies the art, such as great masterworks in a museum, you wind up interpreting what the artist is doing, how the artist made that work and what they're conveying.

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)