Quotes About Art

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the time. That's something I really love.

I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

Money to a writer is time to write.