"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."
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"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."
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"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."
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"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."
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"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
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"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."
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"Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?"
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"I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level."
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
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"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
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"I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts."
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"To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism."
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"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
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"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
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"I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that."
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"I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character."
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"I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination."
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