Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes.

When you're given the assignment to write, for example, 'Spider-Man,' the concept, characters and environment are all laid out for you. Everything is pre-established, and your sole responsibility as a creator is to craft an exciting, entertaining, hopefully original adventure, to add layers and colors to a canon that already exists.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.