Quotes About Art

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.

I was very aware of the fact we were so out of fashion when I shot 'Chicago.' And I was trepidatious as to whether it would be seen or embraced by anybody, but I've never stopped believing in the genre. There's nothing like it. It's American-born.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

To be a good artist, you need to be sensitive to the world around you, you need to be curious, you need to listen, you need to be willing to learn from people. A lot of great art is about people being moved by something or seeing something that stops them dead.

Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.