Quotes About Art

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

Being creative and emotional, artistes sometimes go through difficult phases in life, but one has to look at life as a bigger canvas. It's like a big journey.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.

But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.