Quotes About Art

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.