Quotes About Art

I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Soundtracks are made all the time that die horrible deaths - even soundtracks for popular movies.

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.

The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.

I lived in South America when I was growing up. I spent hours sketching. I was good at drawing, and I was obsessed with fashion, but I was also obsessed with magazines.

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.