Quotes About Art

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Every time I think about a girl to motivate me, I think about Grimes. She's one of my heroes.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

The wine of the grape had never stained her mouth, but the wine of poetry was inextinguishable mixed with her blood, entombed in her flesh.

Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a painting on a wall--they're magnetic. The art is the alloy, so to speak. And our souls are equipped with whatever properties are required to attract that alloy. I'm no scientist so I don't really know what the hell these properties are, but my point is we're drawn to stuff we've already got a connection to. Part of the thing is already inside of us.

And could you not make a cameo of this and pin it onto your aesthetic hearts?

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

Screening, the theory of which won enfant terrible Joe Stiglitz a share of the Nobel Prize in 2001, is the art of finding out hidden information by forcing people to act, rather than simply murmur sweet nothings.)

Van Meegeren admitted painting not only the work that had been found in Nazi hands, but Christ at Emmaus and several other supposed Vermeers.