Clive Barker Quotes

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for 'Watch The Throne'.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

Games change by the different creatives that get involved and say, 'I have this crazy idea.'

I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music.

I just want to be the best I can and create my own style of game.