Quotes About Art

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Joy is a well-made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.

For a while I felt very alone sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

What is Mozart doing right now? A. He is decomposing.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile.

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

I love doing stand up. I think it's a really worthwhile art form. It's so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It's a good way to talk back to the world.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you see a black figure, the way the critical establishment operated, you can only imagine that figure having a sociological value. They never say the ways in which their aesthetics were equally worthy of consideration.