Creative Mediums Quotes

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work.

Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but 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.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

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

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.