Quotes About Art

Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas touch, where if I do a little doodle it's worth money!

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I was surprised to see the kind of synergy we made with Lady Gaga and our colors.

Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.

I so hate the term Bollywood. I know it's become synonymous with the industry but really we are 'Indian cinema.'

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.