Quotes About Art

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.