Quotes About Art

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.