Quotes About Art

Weeds are nature's graffiti.

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

Inside Yoko's apartment was a world of Dalís, Magrittes, and Egyptian sarcophagi. The shades were shut, blocking the views of Central Park.

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty lavender paradise.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world's most perfect haiku.

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that's what being in love is all about.

I want to keep a human mouth on my coffee table. It'll be a great conversation starter.

And what do the poets have to say about it? — They only lie!

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Bringing something into physical form can be a way not only of expressing but also integrating what's inside.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that's not on the walls. Someone says no. A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There's an editing process. There's a lot more stuff off the walls than on the walls. The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities.

There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi.

Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

Gerhard Richter,