Art Quotes
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It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.
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Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
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The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.
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I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
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They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
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The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.
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This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
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It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.