Quotes About Art

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like to show great artists of our time, but I also like dealing. And I think they reinforce each other.

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy band. I was obsessed with sketch comedy. Being raised Christian, I was somewhat sheltered from the more radical high-art world. So to me, comedy was where people got to express themselves in an abstract way. It was a big part of my growing up.

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

I wasn't available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would've been lost.

Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.