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John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career. -- David Bailey
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer. -- Milton Glaser
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.' -- Asif Kapadia
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others. -- Frank Oz
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it. -- Helmut Newton
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. -- Damian Loeb
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. -- Jane Haddam
I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. -- Jonathan Hickman
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. -- Robert Benton
Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity. -- Christophe Lemaire
Art directors speak in pictures. If you want an art director to understand what you're saying, you need to draw some lines and circles on a piece of paper. -- Nevada Scheffler
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like. -- Raymond Pettibon
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English! -- Thelma Schoonmaker
In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology. -- Rick Heinrichs
Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and Ã¼ber-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director. -- Deborah Smith
My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played instruments, too, and my mum used to have crazy house parties when me and my brother were young - dub and garage would be banging through my house. -- King Krule
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. -- Jack Levine
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there. -- Diane Paulus
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. -- Yahoo Serious
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. -- Jock Sturges
Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved. -- Anne Dudley
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film. -- Jeff Bridges
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director. -- Arne Glimcher
The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors. -- Alexander Kluge
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters. -- Marc Jacobs
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. -- Olafur Eliasson
Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers. -- Ted Naifeh
I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art. -- Sally Menke
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. -- Guy Pearce
It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director. -- Cam Gigandet
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary. -- Kevin Munroe

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