Quotes About Art

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Directing is a tremendous art.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.