Quotes About Art

My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

The way we write our solo songs is that we take the emotions that we feel and put them in the lyrics. And we try to put them in the songs.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed.

Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.

So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off, is it beautiful anymore? Some people think it is; some people don't. The expectation is to focus on the very beautiful parts, not the ending.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.