Quotes About Art

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

Music is my one opportunity to let out how I'm feeling when I'm not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It's just venting.

Every note is a lifetime for itself.

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a picture in a frame has become a lost art because we are inclined to just do it all through technology.

It is disappointing to note that you no longer find enough of melodious music in Malayalam films.

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.