Angelina Jolie Quotes

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

I want to be something that the listeners might not know that they needed but that I fill a lane and that they enjoy it for a while.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

All I owe the world is my art.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

I just don't want to do films for the sake of it.

It's really hard to do, but I think it's an important thing for, no matter what type of artist you are, to trust that the reason why you are given the love of being artistic is just to make you happy - it's not to make you rich and famous.

I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

I just want to do something that I feel makes a difference.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.