Quotes About Art

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

To me, making records isn't work.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.