Quotes About Art

There's so much to do in Paducah, Kentucky... Paducah's pretty cool, man.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.

Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to hit right.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.

I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there.

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.

I like 'Discipline.' That's my favorite King Crimson album.

For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.

I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

Kissing on screen isn't easy.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.