Quotes About Art

The world is full to brimming with its own shit. A little more from me won't even make a difference—it's only natural. It's to be expected. I should put a lot of shit in the play, so it will be a multicolored shit.

We live in an age of some really good blow-job artists. Every era has its art form. The nineteenth century, I know, was tops for the novel

SHEILA How can these artists we read about—who have been married five or six times—how can they have enough time for all that life, and also make art? MARGAUX And have a heroin addiction?

Handwriting

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.