Quotes About Art

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

For me, 'Diamond Necklace' is a commercial attempt, as it has songs and glamour.

I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project that is entertaining but also moving the cultural needle forward. I think it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to work on 'Billions.'

Music needs room to breathe.

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

A negative is never finished.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I embrace the middle ground, because curiously it has more edge to it than the cutting edge. It has been a weirdly neglected path for the audience of contemporary art. Im making art not for people who dont like art, but for people who are interested but maybe alienated by the more esoteric pieces.

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.