Shweta Tripathi Quotes

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful.

You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

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.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

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 have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.