Quotes About Art

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

It's really cool to make a movie that you're excited to go see.

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through writing songs, that's a pretty cool thing to do.

Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

It's the coolest job to be on Broadway.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

I can't copy nature.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.