Quotes About Art

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.

I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little kid, so that was my incentive.

Cannes is a fun festival, but some people use it as a place to smash a movie, or to destroy it.

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

I like to be playful; I want people to look at what I do and smile.

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating.

Art makes people smile, brings people together.

After 'The Gamekeeper' I made one other film called 'Looks and Smiles,' but making British films was very difficult. There wasn't a tradition of British cinema.

I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.