Ed Wood Quotes
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
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In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.
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To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.
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I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.
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Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.