Quotes About Art

Creative content is challenging, no matter what, and animation is particularly challenging.

It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

I think movies, I think art, can change the world.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I got bored of the self-imposed rules.

Music changed my life in so many ways.

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

Chaos to me is really important in music.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

I want to make the kind of films that Charlie Chaplin did.

I love Charlotte Olympia and Sophia Webster shoes best - they're like art for the feet.

I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.