Quotes About Art

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.

If you look back at Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' or 'Pocahontas,' animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived.

Music is nourishment.

I come from theatre, and I feel like I have to go back to it every few years because it's like nourishment for the soul. And, as an actor, it's the place you have most control: no one cuts or edits you, and you get to tell the story each night.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I've never abandoned the novel.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.