Quotes About Art

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

Music is life, and life is not a business.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.