Quotes About Art

I can't hold a tune at all.

If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into my head on the keyboard.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.

You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that a huge pop tune hits you in the face.

My work is music. That's why I could set to tune a song such as 'Kathirunnu Kathirunnu.'

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.

One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad' takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble.

If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.

When Tupac turned thirteen, we were homeless on that day. His theater club gave him a party. Sometimes I do wonder that if I hadn't gone on with fool-heartedness, my son would have had an easier transition into this life. But at least I was able to keep art there. Otherwise he would've had no way to get his feelings out.

I've always been a huge Tupac fan, and I often listen to him for inspiration or when I'm stuck.

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

When I became older and started to become more in tune with my political leanings, there was a disconnect between the feminist in me and the hip hop side of me, and I don't know if, in some way, those influences are also present in Tupac's work.

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.