Quotes About Art

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

I just love food and the art of it. There's such an art to being a good chef and the way you present food and the different ingredients you use. It's like music - you get inspiration from different genres. It's the same with art, too.

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.

Music is never inherently funny!

Because of who I am, and how open I am, there's something inherently political about just writing love songs.

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

Writing is inherently scary.

Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It's a way of expressing myself.

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

'3' was initially not a feature film but a short movie.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

Films I did initially, like 'Arth' and 'Saransh' are really close to my heart.

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

Film has its own innate poetry.

Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

'You Broke Up With Me' was fun yet definitely addressed an inner emotion of mine.

The inner core of my being is Carnatic music.

I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

I like the idea of creating from your inner youth. You don't have to think too hard about it. Just make what feels good.