Quotes About Art

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable.

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.

A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.

It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.

I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.

It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that's the craft.

It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Music is my ultimate passion in life.

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.