Quotes About Art

I love 'Babette's Feast' because of the message in it - an artist will never be poor, and you can melt the coldest heart with love and passion.

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking at the pop art coming over from America. My father was an art collector, and he was coming home with these strange pieces of art that weren't exposed in museums. At the time, it was quite revolutionary, very adventurous.

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

I make pop culture.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

We don't want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so 'ParaNorman' like 'Coraline' has something meaningful to say.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.