Quotes About Art

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

I don't want to do films for money and go back. I want to try to at least change the world through cinema, the industry, the way cinema is conceived.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

When you're concentrating on just the music, you're not thinking about anything else.

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

I feel D-Town makers are coming up with interesting concepts.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

One of the most rewarding things is meeting someone after a concert who has never been to a concert before. It is incredibly rewarding when they say, 'This is my first classical concert.' It is really exciting for everyone.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'