I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.
I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.
One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.
You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
