Quotes About Art

As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions.

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.

The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough, is a hilarious biography of one of the most hideous directors who ever picked up a movie camera - Andy Milligan.

You will see nowadays TV's Top 20 and Radio's Top 20 tend to be the same. And then there are films that never reach to mass audience, and because of that, their soundtrack also dies a silent death.

Sex is a must topic. Even every Bollywood movies has such highlighted content.

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

I don't know how other people have a topic or have a goal when making a song, like, 'Let's write about this, or let's write about that.' It's kind of difficult for me. Personally, I like vibing out and freestyling.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'

I personally feel like certain topics and certain issues aren't really being conveyed the right way in music nowadays. It's all very direct and to the point without leaving anything to the imagination.

Music was a great way for me to express myself, there's topics I talk about in my songs, which I wouldn't have a conversation about in real life.

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

What's the big deal in doing a topless shoot provided it's done in good taste? Our temples too have topless figures carved on them.

I love all shades of blue, but electric blue tops the list.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.