Quotes About Art

I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what got me into music in the first place.

I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all.

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most important, Motown. Jarron and I weren't allowed to listen to rap until we were 12. After our birthday I dashed to Target and bought DJ Quik's album 'Quik Is the Name.' I memorized every line.

Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.

Yeah, it can be dangerous to kind of try and target your art to a certain type of people! You don't know who's going to gravitate towards your work, you never know what people are going get out of the work. So I try and just create music that feels true to my taste, and then see what happens.

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs make it seem like creating art is this insurmountable task.

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

It's a daunting task to create something that interests audiences.

I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.