Quotes About Art

It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.

I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

I had no interest in high school besides art.

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

There is no limit to how far drag can go.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

Yo no soy poeta. Leo poesía, pero jamás he podido escribir un solo verso. Y no porque no lo haya intentado.

arte era suyo y los recuerdos eran míos, ¿qué

Picasso dijo: «Todos sabemos que el arte no es la verdad. Es una mentira que nos hace ver la verdad, al menos aquella que nos es dado comprender».

OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.

My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I was cheered / when I came first to know / that there were flowers also / in hell). No, I answered—how was it for you to read it? Aristotle, in his Poetics, never promised catharsis for the makers of art, only for the audience.