Quotes About Art

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

Other-Love is writing's first name.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I love art. It really changes my mood and wakes me up.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.