Quotes About Art

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal and Majaaz. They took me to another facet of literature and drama.

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).

I love films where even if you don't like the film, it doesn't matter. It's about respecting a point of view.

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!

A book makes claims of literary art.