Quotes About Art

You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you're not concerned with including all of society, then I don't really know what you're doing making art in the first place.

Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.

When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining - and it has to be done.

Culture is a reflection of values.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?

My design style is really a reflection of my fashion style, which is what I started in, working in fashion.

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.

I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

Art makes you a better human being, and that reflects in society.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

I always say that cinema reflects life, not the other way round.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.