Quotes About Art

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.

On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

My biggest inspiration was always early Iron Maiden, because it was the only band I knew for some time, and, as we all know, Iron Maiden is great.