Quotes About Art

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.