Quotes About Art

I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.

But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into only so many words, because in a song you really only have three, four minutes to have a complete world in this song, so I think it definitely taught me to be concise.

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

Film is very condensed.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

Composers are not all good conductors.

All art is a confession.

Acting is a form of confession.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

I don't like confrontation; I just like to sing.

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

Acting is a form of confusion.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

Love and the imagination are connected.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.