Quotes About Art

I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.

I believe that all forms of creativity are related.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

I love anything related to acting.

I would love to pursue other things only if they are related to dance, as I have always been passionate about dance.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out.