Adrien Brody Quotes

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.