Quotes About Art

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.

I like to write film music that stands on its own.

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.