Quotes About Art

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.