Martin Freeman Quotes

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Movies are about escape.

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I love film - it's like painting.

Film and art are close together.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

'Louie' is a beautiful show. I think it's art on television.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.