Quotes About Art

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Music is hugely important to me.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

The visual and the popular are essential.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Knowledge is precious in all its forms: music, art, science, and technology, as well as the embedded knowledge in our bodies and brains. Any loss of this knowledge is tragic.

The most complex capability of the human brain—what I would regard as its cutting edge—is our emotional intelligence. Sitting uneasily at the top of our brain's complex and interconnected hierarchy is our ability to perceive and respond appropriately to emotion, to interact in social situations, to have a moral sense, to get the joke, and to respond emotionally to art and music, among other high-level functions.

La tristeza es algo constante. Las canciones se dedican a tapar la tristeza igual que el ruido tapa el silencio. Así que cuando las canciones se acaban, vuelve la tristeza.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Writing is art.... it reflects a creative process of experimentation and self-expression.

Everything in the world can be pictured, but a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form; this has to be shown rather than said.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

The classical author who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of known rules is freer than the poet who writes down whatever comes into his head and is slave to other rules of which he knows nothing.

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

I probably have 15 to 20 Dalis in the store. The secret to buying Dali - never buy one made after 1970.