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Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did...

Quotes by Sean Patrick Thomas

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Quotes by Sean Scully

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

Quotes by Sean Scully

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.

Quotes by Sean Scully

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

Quotes by Sean Scully

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.

Quotes by Sean Scully

I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.

Quotes by Sean Scully

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

Quotes by Sean Scully

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

Quotes by Sean Scully

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

Quotes by Sean Scully

My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn't come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.

Quotes by Sean Scully

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Quotes by Sean Hannity

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

Quotes by Sean Kinney

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Quotes by Sean Lennon

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

Quotes by Sean Lennon

I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.

Quotes by Sean Maguire

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a...

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

Film is the only art form where we feel we have to title our stuff literally. Musicians don't have to title their songs literally. It can be more about what's conjured up when you think of a word.

Quotes by Sean Baker

Frequently Asked Questions

What perspectives on art are covered in this collection?
A few distinct takes - being an artist "to the core" with a goal of elevating humanity, art shaping personal character, and two versions of the idea that film "is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" and should be watched straight on.
Is there a quote about art and personal identity?
Yes, two of them. One speaker calls themselves "an artist to the core," aiming to elevate humanity through their art. Another says their art has had a strong influence on the kind of person they are. For more on personal growth, see the Life page.
Is there a quote specifically about film as art?
Yes - in fact there are two closely related versions of the same idea, both arguing that film "is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" and should be looked at straight on rather than over-analyzed.
Is there anything here about art's broader purpose or ambition?
Yes, one quote frames the speaker's whole objective as using their talents "to elevate humanity through my art" - a big-picture statement about art's purpose. For more ambitious, purpose-driven quotes, check out the Great page.
Where can I read more about how art is perceived or valued?
For a closer look at how art and status intersect, see the Status page. For more general uplifting quotes, the Good page is also worth browsing.

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