Quotes About Art

When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's 'Just Kids' are both incredible.

I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

I was always smitten by the mainstream Hindi commercial cinema.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Smoke machines are the best!

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.

To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.

Dance has given me so many opportunities including a foothold into filmdom.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.