Quotes About Art

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.

I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

I never sought to play monsters in films.

With 'Ekla Akash,' I have sought to re-capture a different feel and mood, I will also explore other realistic films through music.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

Every single soul is a poem.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

Art is the skin of the soul.

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.