Quotes About Art

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And I know it's not a wand because plenty of fans love to turn on us as soon as they realize we are actual black people, with black concerns in our black lives.

I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.

Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.

Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

It's great when you can write a meaningful song that touches people, but sometimes you just wanna have fun and sing a silly song that doesn't reflect on you as a person.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.

I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.

A lot of people say, 'I gotta win my awards.' I just wanna make great movies.

You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.

I have a passion for the music - not because of I wanna be in the lights or the money, but it's because it's my life. It's my heart.

I dropped out of arts school because I didn't wanna stare at a computer all day - I get headaches.

The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist, that's just what I want to do. I wanna keep exploring new things with different directors with different producers and different styles and tones.

I'm passionate about music in general, not just hip-hop. But when it comes to hip-hop, I don't wanna see it die culturally.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.