Art Quotes
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.
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Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
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Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
