Quotes About Art

I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

If you're serious about your music, there's this thing called The Remix Project in Toronto, and it's an art incubator, and it's basically like free school. If you don't got money for studio, you don't have the networks, they help you.

Gabriella Wilson

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so stressful, it's like torture.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.