Quotes About Art

You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it?

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

I love nail art and anything that sparkles and grabs attention.

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

I have a great amount of respect for what a manicurist does - now, when I go and get my own nails done at a nail salon, I have a lot of respect for what they're doing. Especially any kind of intricate work that they're doing is... it's a real art form.

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Genres are just names.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

I don't want to single anyone out. I'll just say that there are a lot of not good band names out there.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.