Quotes About Art

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

If I don't see an emotional response to a dress, then I think something's wrong.

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for experiences over just retail.

I'd love to return to theater.

I reveal myself in my movies.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing to say.

My life revolves around music.

I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.