Quotes About Art

Some people get it. Most people never will. But that's art.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

My personal life is also cinema.

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the West a great confluence of events and people combined to create something unique in the annals of human history.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.