Quotes About Art

My role in kung fu - in the art of kung fu, not the series - is not as a practitioner. My role is that of an evangelist, which is an entirely different thing.

I wish there were more kung fu films. They are a part of our culture.

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.

Bob was very influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. That huge type of creativity which takes nothing and makes it into something very wrenching.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.

I don't label films or actors, and labelling means setting boundaries. Why do you want to do that to art?

The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it right.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.

Music should come from the heart. It should happen. That should be automatic, and if you labour on creating music, it will not have soul.

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.