Quotes About Art

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at the arts we are actually chipping away at our collective soul.

I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years.

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

Black is not a color.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

I really love color.

I'm all about colors.

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

There's a moment of awe when you watch the colors dry and become lighter.

Just because I have a sense of humor and use bright colors, people always say it's 'camp.' I'm just doing my thing. I think of it as art.

Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.

I love taking elements and colours from nature and then distorting them somehow.

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'