Quotes About Art

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

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.

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I would sit in front of the radio with my father, and we would listen to the magic of football. It was like the matches were a dramatic story being told to us. It was a kind of art, in my opinion. It was like a painting or a great novel.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.