Aimee Bender Quotes

The arts have always been in and around my life.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

I just love being in the arts.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

The Saving Our Cinderellas program is a facet of Saving Our Daughters which is more specifically geared towards using music, theatre, film and television as a means to help build self-esteem in our girls by developing programs that allow them to discover, explore and express their individuality using the arts.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

I love the conversation between film and music.

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.