Quotes About Art

I'm big into the Stone Roses.

It's kind of a lost art form, the musical, in a way, so when 'La La Land' came around, I couldn't believe my luck. I just felt like I needed someone to keep on pinching me 'cause not only was it a chance to make a musical but to work with Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

The early firings contained many stones.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.

I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.

Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.

Music is my life, so that journey will never stop.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.