Quotes About Art

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

I am a spontaneous actor. I don't like giving more than two takes.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.

From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

All my dance moves are improv. I just make them up on the spot.

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose.

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s.

I worked with a great photographer called Rafael Pavarotti a while ago and he's got some amazing playlists on Spotify.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

Art galleries are the best first date spots for my money.

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.