Quotes About Art

I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

I enjoy any chance to get in front of a microphone in a role. I'll do it.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

One of my favorite albums that I've been listening to lately is 'Midnight Machines' by Lights.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

Working with Mike Leigh is a process of distillation.

There have been too many miles on the road. I have been doing six or seven exhibitions a week, two or three a night sometimes.

It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Artistically I like to do short-term things. Like I do a lot of commercials, I have the Miller commercial out where I play the Devil in Hell, where Hell is frozen.

Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.

It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.