Quotes About Art

To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible.

People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

Because I had other means of expressions, I was lucky that I didn't go under and start becoming all convoluted in my head. That can happen, if you're a serious actor and you're here to really be a part of cinema, and when cinema ignores you, it can be devastating.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

It's no use ignoring looks or charm if you're going into the theatre.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.