Quotes About Art

I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

I am very proud of 'Newton.' It's a wonderful film.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

If Prince decided that he liked you, or he liked your art or what you brought to the table, it wasn't something that ended. It was a continuation of that thing until he went to the next thing.

When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

Rock music is niche.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

I just want to act - commercial, mainstream, niche or art - my choices are not defined by labels.

I just like to draw and put ideas down. And every idea that Nickelodeon doesn't buy I put on the Noog Network.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

I've been playing the drums since age nine.