Quotes About Art

I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.

Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something, it's out. It's in people's ears, cars, headphones. It has its own journey.

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art and of creating and let my gallery take care of the more commercial aspects.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.