Quotes About Art

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Singing soothes me. It is something that I have always been doing and will continue to do.

I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service, to tell the story, to bring a balm, to soothe, to provide catharsis. You know, not to make our work any more important or less important, but just that there is a great importance to it.

I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious.

Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.

To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists should be a reflection of that accumulated value, accumulated knowledge. You have to demonstrate that you have the sophistication to put that into play in the work you're making.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.