Quotes About Art

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is not to titillate.

The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality of hip-hop.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

(Sarcasm is not the lowest form of wit, It is an art form dismissed by those too stupid to master it)