Juan Pablo Di Pace Quotes

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

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.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.