Quotes About Art

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

Every film is like my own kid; I don't treat them differently.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!', 'Narf!', 'Poit!', 'Splonk!' and 'Zort!' are allowed?

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I've always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone or fine glass. I've always gotten the most out of it. I love it!

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.

There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.

I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the bigger picture.

None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.

'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.

Whether it's a leaf from a tree, the supermarket or person, everything is art and movement, it's all inspiration.