Quotes About Art

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Kitsch is very important to me.

There's so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

Twerking is just limited to a certain, specific dance where it's hand on the knees and you're busting open. With bounce music, we do a whole lot more and everyone is so unique in the way that they move and their personality.

I do balisong knife twirling.

I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me.

Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock every day, is what gave me this sensibility and drove me to explore my fascination with art.

I think my comedy's probably the same as my art, which is kind of abstract, impressionist, emotional. You create an emotion and then you knock it down. You take something the way people are expecting it to go, and then give it a different conclusion.

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

I hope the entire Korean culture like films can be enjoyed by many others.

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

I love Kubrick.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.