Quotes About Art

Modelling is completely different from acting. They are two skills that you can't compare.

I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.

If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.

I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period drama with a core of modern times.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.

With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.