Quotes About Art

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture.

Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Films make an actor immortal.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.

I really believe in the power of cinema, and with it comes a responsibility to impart some sort of message for the better.

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

'This Life' definitely! That's my favorite song off 'Imperial,' period.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of a gallery. But you dont. The learning experience actually happens once youre in the gallery.

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

I was in a school called Shiv Niketan, run by Elizabeth Gauba, where she gave a lot of importance to people expressing themselves in whatever way they wanted - some could draw and answer, some could dance and answer, while some could act.

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.

Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.