Quotes About Art

You can't apply the term 'lucrative' to dancing, but it does earn me a decent living.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

I am very good at decoration. I am maybe extremely good at decoration.

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.

I've dedicated my life to cinema and acting.

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

A film is a film, and shouldn't be defined by language.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.