Quotes About Art

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.

I make music for people to feel happy with my music and the people that actually want to support me, that's all I care about. I care about the people that want the music. I make the music for them.