Quotes About Art

Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

When I was a kid, my parents told me that every time we went to see a play or musical, I would sit there with my mouth hanging open completely immersed. I think it has just always spoken to me, been the thing that makes me feel alive, seen, and the way I can express myself.

My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped create my idea of the kind of films I want to make.

Fashion is so important to me. I've always spoken about it in my music.

European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

I'm not going to do an album. There's enough horrible drag queens singing - especially when they do that spoken word over music, 'I'm fierce! I'm fierce!'

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.