Quotes About Art

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

Everyone enjoys music and film. It just makes people happy or makes them feel things. We're not saving peoples' lives, but if we are entertaining them, that's as much as I can contribute in this life.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

We all have seen Madhuri Dixit's hit dance numbers and we can't forget the contribution Saroj Khan added to them.

Music is something no one can control.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.