Quotes About Art

I've come to learn that music speaks for itself.

In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.

I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.

When your work speaks, you don't need to speak at all.

About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Indradhanush', which speaks about the seven colours, equating each with emotions that we as human beings experience.

Music - it speaks to everyone. Music speaks to everyone on so many different levels.

I make music that speaks to me.

When you are a dancer your body speaks, my body can express itself.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Music is always with me and I don't need a special space for it.

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.

'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary. That's my opinion. I like to be an artist; I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don't think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.