Quotes About Art

All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.

I'm an emotional person. I'm not going to deny that. If I feel a certain way, I'll express it on the track.

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

In my career spanning over two decades, I've never felt that comedy is a department everybody can excel in because it's an art and only a few are blessed with the talent to entertain.

Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.

A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.

Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.

I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special and unique - depending on the performance and the show. That really kind of helped me develop my love of theater.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at the moment.

I love how South Indian films depict life and love.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

You never come home depressed from a cartoon job.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'

You never know the depth of an actor.