Quotes About Art

It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

Our literature is in great shape.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Music is to give, share.

Anybody who digs your art, you what to share it with.

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

Culture should be shared, not hoarded.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

I feel Hansa is an evergreen character which has been a sheer pleasure to perform.

I really don't have any shelf music.

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

Every artiste's shelf life... is their destiny.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

How content-driven cinema worked so well... Yeah, the shift is definitely happening... It is such a good change, and it is the kind of change I would like to see so that we just go to watch a film and not put them into brackets - that this is an art film or commercial movie.

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.

My goal isn't to shock.