Quotes About Art

We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.'

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I'm a journeyman actor.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.

I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.

Dance is so joyous.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.

How can you judge one film against another?

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.