Quotes About Art

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

The 11-minute 'Colouring of Pigeons' takes The Knife's experimental, cerebral side to new heights.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one and not the other.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.