Quotes About Art

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

Genius and taste don't go together.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

It's one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.