Quotes About Art

Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do feel connected to New York music.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

I guess I always view movies as, in their best form, connecting us more to each other and to humanity.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

I lost connection with music for a while, but I've always loved it.

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.