Quotes About Art

It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it. Poetry is meditative. It's reflective.

After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels leave me feeling rather peaceful - that's when things are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

I feel like music is, you know, made to inspire, to heal, and to cope with. So, I hope that when my fans, or even just people who stumble across my music, I hope they get some type of feeling from it.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

'The War' is a stunning achievement in filmmaking.

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

Stunt people are amazing at what they do, but they're not actors.

If you ask me whether I can direct, I can. In fact, I have shot several songs, scenes and stunts. When certain directors of my movies were not able to be there for some reason and had asked me to help out, I have directed. But to helm an entire movie is a different art altogether.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Colors and prints are part of my style.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.