Quotes About Art

It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do that cheapens the music. And there's a huge effect to that of music not playing such a big part in peoples' lives anymore.

I have no time to write songs.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.

One thing that I really love about making records is that you can flow through fiction and non-fiction but, ultimately, everything's a commentary on real life in some way.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.