Quotes About Art

I always tell people that I went through long hair. I was a typical art school scruff. It was good then.

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.

My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.

The beautiful thing about 'Bhav' is that it reaches out to a far more number than just the typical set of people who say they like classical music and dance.

My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

In theatre, the uglier you are, the better actor you are.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's pain. There's greed. There's malice, and there's hurt. That's all good stuff for any kind of art. I'm not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.

Only ugliness is obscene.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

Nobody wants an ugly book.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.