Quotes About Art

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

I'm involved with this exhibition, which is a collection of Nobby Clarke's photos of the opening night of my own art exhibition.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

I love creating art, whether it's with photos, my own body, or clothes.

I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

I think we all have this special equation with our art where we don't feel the need for anything else; it almost gives you everything. It gives you physical strength, it gives you mental peace.

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!