Quotes About Art

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.

Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets.

I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

'Baahubali' was a film that was never done before. Rajamouli sir was my biggest inspiration because he lives in the smallest house and drives the smallest cars, but he makes the biggest films ever. He taught me the art of analysing your own strengths, and I take inspiration from him.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

It's always stressful working on a new piece, but it concentrates the energy.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

'Auto Music' isn't a pop record by any stretch.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums.