Quotes About Art

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big, it's very flashy, it's got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

Songwriting's a weird game.

Acting is such a weird job.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.