Quotes About Art

I am very fond of ghazals. I like ghazals from Jagjit Singh and Sir Ghulam Ali.

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I started drawing when I was about 2, mostly pictures of my mother and my sister. When I got into school, instead of taking the notes that I should have been taking, I was drawing in all of my notebooks. It was an artwork thing for me at first.

My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.

I love the Scissor Sisters.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

Growing up, I was listening to Scissor Sisters.

It is a lot of fun being in the Scissor Sisters.

I like Scissor Sisters.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But every time I would try to sit down and be an illustrator or painter, it was just not my best use.

I don't sit and listen to music all day, although music is a big influence on me.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.