Quotes About Art

There's so much crap talked about acting.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

I was playing bass when I was a kid; I play bass now. I used to draw pictures when I was a kid, and I draw pictures now. I talked backwards and weird when I was a kid, and I talk backwards now.

After 20 years and 250 mainstream films, I thought I should have in my library at least 50 films, films that will be talked about when I am no more.

I'm a singer, not a talker I took singing lessons, not talking lessons.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Painted talking heads is just boring.

I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that moves people.