Quotes About Art

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

Love educates us about art. Art consoles us from lost love. Our great loves are a condition of our future love.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

Basically, my life was music, and I was always consumed by it.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.