Quotes About Art

Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.'

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

Paris is the most beautiful city in the world.

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.

I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

I adore the tapestries at the Musee de Cluny in Paris!

You can't not love it here in Paris. It's amazing.