Quotes About Art

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our songs.

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.

I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

One of my daughters wants to act, but none of them sing - well, one of them sings but she's got some ways to go. I love her acting. I'm actually trying to put her in some classes and everything so she can learn the art of acting. I don't want her to get no parts because her dad is Ginuwine. I want her to earn it.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

Playing a sinner is very liberating!

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.

'Indian' is a cult album. It is one of my most favourite Rahman sir albums.

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.