Quotes About Art

There's nothing I love more than admiring the details and embellishments on the works of art that I wear.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.

You'd be surprised. A number of developers recognize that having a cultural activity in their space brings kudos. People like the idea of being near to creatives.

Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.

I've never seen the devil create music.

There are two kinds of films: the ones that are devoid of logic but can still hijack the audience, and those that can win them over with logic. Both kinds can succeed, and I like to work in both.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

I'm totally devoted to '30s cinema.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

Any dialogue about fashion is a good dialogue.

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.