Quotes About Art

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

all photographs are about death, really, and time: about preserving a moment in silver and chemicals, when life itself is never preserved, when every cell of everything is already decaying, and being replaced, and decaying again. The subject and the image coexist for the moment that the shutter opens and closes. And then the subject decays but the image lives on unchanged.

Pensavo al mio romanzo, La settimana bianca. Romand mi aveva detto che quel libro raccontava esattamente la sua infanzia. Pensavo al grande vuoto bianco che si era scavato a poco a poco dentro di lui fino a lasciare soltanto un simulacro di uomo vestito di nero, un baratro da cui proveniva la corrente d'aria gelida che faceva rabbrividire il disegnatore.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

The Skull Butterfly is a personalized display

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

La felicidad, a semejanza del arte, cuanto más se calcula menos se logra

Las masas son cerriles, viles, groseras, homicidas y despreciables. Donde actúa la masa hay siempre sangre, ferocidad e injusticia. Ningún artista verdadero puede ser comunista: el arte no existe sin un sentido de aristocracia. Y las cosas bellas jamás pueden ser un bien común

La Medicina es el arte de acompañar con palabras griegas al sepulcro.

Escribir para ser sobre todo fotografiado, amargo destino.

La enfermedad no es catástrofe sino danza de la que podrían estar ya surgiendo nuevas construcciones de la sensibilidad.»

Con solemnidad o no, el narrador de Carta breve para un largo adiós utilizaba siempre su yo, probablemente porque su formación era europea.

Yes, it was clear: art goes by like life.

Escrever é corrigir a vida