Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

I have never been much of a painter.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I care about what people think of my heart, my music, my passion.