Quotes About Art

The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.

You know, what is so curious about being a director is that you never get on anybody else's set and see how they do things.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Currently, I work as an actor, but I still love music.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

Anybody can curse on a record.

As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

My curves are not crazy.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it though.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Theatre is difficult. It's not that I'm afraid of doing 'one takes' or shots, but it's about being able to live one character for several hours on a daily basis!

I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

You live as long as you dance.