Quotes About Art

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.

I've remixed lots of other people's songs, from Adele to Electric Light Orchestra to Beyonce, so when my record label said, 'Why don't you give 'Ibiza' to someone to remix?' I said, 'Sure,' because I like the idea of people reimagining art and making something new out of it.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.

There's something special about recording something that's as personal as your own songs.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of game makers want challenge themselves with 'can I move someone?' or 'can I get them to respect me as an artist?'

Over time, the lines blur sometimes. A little of you comes into the character.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.