Michael Douglas Quotes

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

Draw what you see.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

Art is truth.

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.'

I always say that cinema reflects life, not the other way round.

Life and art are inseparable.