Quotes About Art

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

That's the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You're done when you don't want to do it anymore.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.