Quotes About Art

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Art is my God, Music is my religion.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.