Quotes About Art

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.

I work a lot with sounds based on stream of consciousness. I like the way it sounds, then I turn it into something that makes more sense.

Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.

My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

My musician friends could always practice what they loved doing, but I can't go on a street corner and start reciting a monologue. Acting is very collaborative, and you always need other people with you - mainly an audience.

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'