Quotes About Art

I think 'Normal People' is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do and looks at respecting the other person.

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

Normally, people would spend thousands to watch a trashy film in a multiplex, but not shell out a few bucks to watch a play. But in bigger cities, we are more likely to find a bigger section of people who would want to watch a play.

Norman Rockwell - even though we think of him as a great American artist, in a lot of museums he has not garnered that kind of attention. And it's this kind of accessibility that we're trying to bring - not looking down on any art.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

It's not fair to tell an artiste what to be creative about.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.

I'm not interested in celebrities, with their free dresses. I'm interested in clothes.