Quotes About Art

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

Embryo is one of my favorite groups ever.

I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice takes you to what it wants to sing. And that is how the best stuff kind of emerges.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

I write emotional music.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

Music can feel empowering, or it can give a natural emotional voice to something people can't express. This is why it's beautiful.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I believe in the need for paying for art. Free shows must not be encouraged.

Dancing has always been my passion and it was my parents - Kasim and my mother Ramla Beevi's encouragement and support that helped me learn dancing at an early age.

I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

Good films will happen only if there are people to produce good films and there are people to encourage the endeavour.