Quotes About Art

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire

Writing is a labor-intensive task.

Elvis had been a truck driver, but John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ray Davies, and Keith Richards were all art college students who tended to think of themselves as artists.

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.

I dont care how Ill be remembered after death. For all I know people will put all my work in a skip the next day.

I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of me just doesn't know how much I believe in that, as much as I want to.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

The sky is love's muse.

I sell blue sky and coloured air.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New York skyline for me. He did, and it is the first painting that has ever been painted just for me.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

I think NFT is a grand slam.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

Why sleep when we can do drag?

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.