Quotes About Art

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Design is everything. Everything!

My design is no design.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

I have designed 150 saris.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

I wouldn't have lasted two minutes as a designer.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

A dress is an emotional thing to make. You've got to fall in love with it and not just with the dress - the whole process of designing it has to be a good experience.