Quotes About Art

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

I'm a very femme gay boy, so what better way to express that than through drag? It truly is the greatest mix of art forms.

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.

Before 'AEnima,' we were just following our gut. There was a lot of anger in the air and we never tried to control that. But just as we mature as humans, with 'AEnima' we tried to be fueled more by spiritual ideas or more of a conscious mode of aiming things in the right place or trying to take more responsibility for our art.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

I do love fashion as a mode of self expression, and I appreciate it for being wearable art.

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

I love modeling.

Modelling's not something I want to do just on its own, but I always want it to be a part of my life.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.