Quotes About Art

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for it to be entertainment at the same time.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.