Quotes About Art

I love Paris.

I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.

I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven't, and that's kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them.

I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

As I learnt Bharatanatya, I found myself participating in school and college competitions.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

I don't write for a particular audience.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.