Quotes About Art

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.

Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created.

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.

I just make films that attract me.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'

I come from theatre and I like the audition process.

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

I support all Australian films.

'Australian Rules' was such a beautiful film - it was art for me.

I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of dollars to attain it. It's authentic, at least.

You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.

Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.

Proust is a huge author for me.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.