Quotes About Art

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

I have a bit of an obsession with eyes and always want to use them.

The microscopic world became my obsession.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.

The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He's an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn't. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

I don't expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, 'I love 'Drag Race,' and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.' Not necessarily an obvious crossover.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Naturally, obviously, nudity is a part of life.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth.

Occasionally, I'll wear glitter or blue eye shadow.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.