Lily Cole Quotes

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. I think you see that nowadays, in this postmodern context, there's much more use of different mediums in contemporary art. For me, if you're a creative person, you can choose to make a painting, you can choose to make a film.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure.

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work.

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I believe in art.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

I am not an artist which is 'in.'

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.