Quotes About Art

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control.

I love playing grotesques, I relish it.

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

With my own music, I'm much more reluctant to say, you know, 'This record slaps!'

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

Sometimes I wish I had remained in little theater.

The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.

If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.

'Bodies' remains the drama I'm most proud of.

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.

I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver - the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes - everything.

I really liked 'Premam,' and when we decided to remake it, our intention was never to make a better film.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.