Quotes About Art

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon... it's not appreciated.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.

Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific.

I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The thing is you can never predict what the next injustice is going to be. Unfortunately, it's part of being black and conscious in America.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.

With 'Mirzya,' we went deep into folk music. The film, unfortunately, did not do well because it was not marketed well. But we got freedom to do the music the way we want.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

I am sculptor. I am clay.What shall I make of myself today.

Style is art and fashion is everything. Personal expression should reflect the best of who you are and respected without being misunderstood.

The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.