Quotes About Art

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

I love soul music.

Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.

Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

In acting, I've found my soulmate.

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls.

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

It's all about sound. It's that simple.

I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,' and 'Singin' In The Rain.'

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.