Jane Lynch Quotes

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

The artist is called a creator.

I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic people who are thrust into these situations. That, to me, is completely artless.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.