Quotes About Art

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

'Dragon Ball''s villains were easy to draw: Piccolo, Freeza, Majin Boo.

Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.

I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

All of the vintage photos of Ballets Russes are so inspiring.

I love vinyl, man.

Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.

The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.

The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.

When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.

I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl.

There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets' countercultural albums of the 1950s to '80s.

I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl or an expensive coffee table book not everyone can afford it or listen to it.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.