Quotes About Art

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

I am at war with the obvious.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

The war brought out all the art in me.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.