Quotes About Art

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.

Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

I want to impart my dance, my music: I want to make an institute and teach children.

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

For 20 years, I've been running an institute in Chennai where serious dancers from Kerala come with aspirations of becoming professional dancers.

My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to catch up on the years that I lost.

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

I think I've come through the art-industrial complex - I've been educated in some of the best institutions and been privy to some of the insider conversations around theory and the evolution of art.

I started painting incidentally, but it is just another form of expression. No one can stop me from what I do. When you are acting, you are given instructions by directors. This is completely my expression and my identity. No one can tamper with it.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

I use my voice as an instrument.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

My body is an instrument for me to use.