Quotes About Art

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

The other day, I got a henna tattoo that says "Forever."

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

The human body is the best work of art.

What are you doing here?"All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. "Taxidermy?" he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like gargoyles.

Are you educated in the art of medicine?" Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. "A bit, " I hedged.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...

ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.