Quotes About Art

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

I'm, like, the most insane Wes Anderson fan - his films are pretty much my inner landscapes. I just love him to pieces.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.

Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

You can't rush inspiration.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.