Quotes About Art

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Film is a strange thing.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

Acting is a very strange thing. It isn't about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.