Quotes About Art

My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we've been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

All kids love to color - even the older ones, and it can be a very relaxing activity for everyone.

I like painting, I think it's relaxing. I also like designing; I don't really like the manual labor, to be honest.

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Music is my release.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of history. The release of the Christopher Nolan film 'Interstellar' a few days after two catastrophes in our space endeavor gives us one of those moments.

Overall, I just wanted to release music that would take people through life's different emotions.

As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.