Quotes About Art

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I have always been interested in materials and in transforming them.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I think music has become an extended form of art, and therefore we want to continue to challenge ourselves and keep transforming.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

Music is like fashion, it's transient and cyclical.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.