Quotes About Interest

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use).

the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting.

The only things she cared about were solitude and beauty, direct communication with God, and above all a safe distance from the world that she already knew all too well and that no longer held any interest for her.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.