Quotes About Art

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

I didn't study acting.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I would love to study photography.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko - I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn't put a lot of energy or time into the art of learning how to manage people.

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.