Quotes About Art

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I really love Death Cab.

I've always wanted to do a cabaret.

Photographing a cake can be art.

Cake is a very beautiful thing.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.

Camp was something I'd never heard of until I started working with Susanne Bartsch - then I heard it all the time.

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing it down. You know, art - the more you know about it, the more you enjoy it.