Quotes About Art

If you can use songs as a tool, vehicle for empathy and a deeper understanding of how people are feeling and how people's emotions work, there's a lot of good that can come from that.

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

I actually believe that this Trump phenomenon, which has affected many of us, is going to accelerate the use of art for philanthropy, because people are realizing that art is a vehicle for showing opposition - just look at the signs in the women's marches.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.

I used protest music as a vehicle.

Cooking is just a vehicle to express yourself, like painting and acting... The reason why we're cooking is not because we want to put something on the plate. It's so much more complex than that.

Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles, and I drew that sort of thing constantly.

I want to create a body of work that is really, deeply important to people. One of the vehicles I use is business.

When you want some subtle emotions, you need some subtle vehicles for emotion.

In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

I loved 'Blue Velvet.'

I love the Velvet Underground, bro.

I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.