Quotes About Art

I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something - maybe I don't know it yet. But I'll figure it out.

I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.

Tattoos are addicting, and I used to have this tribal tattoo, but I was never really happy with it.

I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.

A Tribe Called Quest really made me want to rap.

Film is subjective, and we must be careful with that. The kinds of films I love are those that observe, and I give possibility for people to talk. No need for me to tell people what to think - even when I make a film like 'S-21.' It's only one point of view. It's still a film; it's not a tribunal.

When we were first creating the look of 'Kung Fu Panda,' we wanted to pay tribute to the beautiful tradition and culture of China.

After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.

The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.

I think whenever there's potential for beauty, beauty can be found. And everything has potential for beauty.

Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.