Quotes About Art

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

Music turns the world upside down.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.

I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in many ways! He was a very open-minded, urban guy with an outdoorsy edge. He is mostly responsible for exposing me to art and culture.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clothing line is urban street wear. It's for women that feel confident in their own skin and want to express themselves. The whole idea is to play with modern pop culture and previous pop culture using art and sayings.

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

When you say rap or Hip Hop, people expect it to be just urban or black. And I don't really feel like you should really put a face on it.

I feel Urdu and Punjabi are quite similar and therefore, I mostly make my songs in Punjabi.

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.