Quotes About Art

It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

There are committed Indonesian filmmakers who are committed supporters of 'The Act Of Killing.'

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I quite like appreciating and supporting what someone else does.

Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.

I hope everybody out here is supporting hip-hop and trying to make it continue on.

My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.

Los Angeles has always been very supportive of us.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

You've got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.